trumpet of doom
Example Sentences
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Rain beat in Kenny's ears like a trumpet of doom.
From Kenny by Nuyttens, Joseph Pierre
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)
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 Martineau, Harriet
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
