2743 examples of doom in sentences

I paused a moment at the door, afraid to enter, or even look in; made one or two steps, and hearing no sound, concluded that all was over with the Hermit, and that my own doom was sealed.

I am going to tell you more of this man, because, as you shall see, he was destined to have much to do with my life, the fate of Dr. Karl Augustus Schermerhorn, and the doom of the Laughing Lass.

I will now quote my friends' own words: "He was pronounced a hard case, manifesting no sorrow for his act, and utterly indifferent to his approaching doom.

By a miracle the palisade was not struck, but I heard a rending and splintering in the forest where tall trees had met their doom.

The silence of so vast a multitude, the sputtering torches, lighting the wild amphitheatre of the hills, the strange clearing with its altar, the mystery of the immense dusky sky, and the memory of what I had already enduredall weighed on me with the sense of impending doom.

All knew that we inside the fortification were powerless to aid those who had wilfully gone to their doom, and none better than those same brave fellows who were ready to risk their lives in behalf of comrades who would have worked disaster to the entire garrison, yet they could not stand idle without at least a show of willingness to face danger in the hope of saving life.

The fugitive was a deserter from the fort, one who had doubtless given such information to the British general as might work serious harm to all of us; but yet never a cry was heard from our garrison, save such as expressed hope that he might escape the terrible doom from which we had at least temporarily saved him, and all appeared eager for him to gain the fortification.

Shall I, having first unwittingly done my friend the most grievous injury, proceed further to betray her, and doom her to a cruel death?

At one time he gave out that Apollo was about to abandon the Tyrians to their doom, and that, to prevent his flight, they had bound him to his pedestal with a golden chain; at another, he pretended that Hercules, the tutelar deity of Macedon, had appeared to him, and, having opened prospects of the most glorious kind, had invited him to proceed to take possession of Tyre.

" Though it seemed in his jealous rage he was going to doom Viola to instant death, yet her love made her no longer a coward, and she said she would most joyfully suffer death to give her master ease.

She let him hear then everything, in spite of feeling herself slip, while she did so, to some doom as yet incalculable; she went on very much as she had done for Mr. Pitman and Mrs. Drack, with the rage of desperation and, as she was afterward to call it to herself, the fascination of the abyss.

The speech of Mrs. Bloomfield now sounded like words of doom to her, and, for an instant, her friend was frightened with the effects of her own imperfect communication.

The other Teutonic kingdoms of the island, of which he was overlord, and so bound to defend, had ceased to exist except in name, or lay utterly powerless, like Mercia, awaiting their doom.

regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around them wait, The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train!

bending o'er the accursed loom, Stamp we our vengeance deep, and ratify his doom.

Enough for me: with joy I see The different doom our Fates assign; Be thine despair and sceptred care; To triumph and to die are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height, Deep in the roaring tide, he plunged to endless night.

2 Glittering lances are the loom Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe and Randver's bane.

In Hoder's hand the hero's doom; His brother sends him to the tomb.

Then slowly she nodded, as if pronouncing her own doom.

'Clodius has met the doom he well deserved: I am ready, if it must be so, to meet that which I do not deserve'. ...

The fisher there his net has spread, Thy prophecy to show; Nor dreams he that thy doom was read, Two thousand years ago.

But now there was no Fall; there was no total depravity, or imminent danger of endless doom; and, the basis gone, the superstructure followed.

"Gathering strength once more, he checked the choking sensations his own recital had caused, and continued: "'They that take the sword shall perish by the sword.' "Brethren, think me not unworthy of belief, when I tell you that the doom of the Britisher is near!

"But Fate reserv'd him to perform its doom, And be the minister of wrath to Rome.

Also that he must not drag me to jail or the scaffold as he went to his doom.

2743 examples of  doom  in sentences