trumpet of doom
Example Sentences
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He, like Joan, was listening, as if for a trumpet of doom.
From The Border Legion by Zane Grey
He was a horse that would not have raised up at the trumpet of doom.
From The Last of the Plainsmen by Zane Grey
The trumpet of doom would not have astonished him more.
From The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story by John R. (John Roy) Musick
If this last sound did not rouse her, I think the trumpet of doom will scarcely reach her soul.”
From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau
Rain beat in Kenny's ears like a trumpet of doom.
From Kenny by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens