trumpet of doom
Example Sentences
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The crisis of 1847 did not break out without much foreshadowing to prudent men, but to the Rev. Josiah Codling it came like the trumpet of doom.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone
He, like Joan, was listening, as if for a trumpet of doom.
From The Border Legion by Grey, Zane
He was a horse that would not have raised up at the trumpet of doom.
From The Last of the Plainsmen by Grey, Zane
The sleeping lion is not dangerous; but let him be wounded and his roar shall ring as the trumpet of doom in the ears of his enemies.
From The Nation Behind Prison Bars by Herr, George L. (George Lewis)
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 Musick, John R. (John Roy)
