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  • The unhappy girl, who had been stupified by the confusion through which the guards had forced a passage, cast a bewildered look on the multitude of faces around her, which seemed to tapestry, as it were, the walls, in one broad slope from the ceiling to the floor, with human countenances, and instinctively obeyed a command, which rung in her ears like the trumpet of the judgment-day.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Bibles and tremulous psalms, they will be apt to hear some of the most fiendish noises in the world; the wind will beat on doors and dance upon roofs for them, and make the hills howl around their cottage with a clamour like the judgment-day.

    Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

  • When he wakes! why, fool, he shall never wake till the judgment-day.

    The Life and Death of Richard the Third 2004

  • But the Lord forgive me for an ill word of them, with their precious little bodies washed, and laying in their patterns till the judgment-day.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • She could shine yet with pale grandeur and steady might; but that star verged already on its judgment-day.

    Villette 2003

  • For the ruin, certainly, of those who do not believe Him, to whom also He has threatened a greater damnation in the judgment-day than that of Sodom and Gomorrah; [4687] but for the resurrection of believers, and those who do the will of His Father in heaven.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Mormons (Heber Kimball included) would gladly die to-day rather than survive him and encounter that judgment-day and final perdition of their faith which must dawn on his new-made grave.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

  • How mean, how worthless, how dearly bought, will appear these few short years, when, at the judgment-day, the souls of these miserable wretches shall cry out against you, -- 'We might have been saved!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • Lord, if on the judgment-day thou shalt give a place in heaven to kings who are forgetful of the fakirs and the poor, then, O Lord, grant that

    Malayan Literature Various

  • What if in the judgment-day it shall be seen that some souls who might have been saved have been lost through your neglect?

    The Art of Soul-Winning J.W. Mahood

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