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  • It is in the interests of justice, doubtless, that thou be hunted down, and expiate by death-doom the crimes which thou and thy myrmidons have committed against society in the sight of God and man.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • Here will I not keep silence of thy hard death-doom and thine excellent deeds (if in any wise things wrought in the old time may win belief), nor of thyself, O fitly remembered!

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • These warlike maidens hovered over the battle-field, directing the fortune of the day according to Wotan's determination, protecting this combatant and seeing his death-doom executed upon the other; they seized the heroes as they fell, and bore them to

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • Then, with papers on his person to death-doom a multitude of misguided men, with fiendish intentions in his heart as well as the power to carry them out, and with the fate of Norway in his hands, Borgrevinck was made secure in the sled, behind the White Storbuk, and sped at dawn on his errand of desolation.

    Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • I must and will hear my death-doom from your own lips.

    Immortal Memories Clement King Shorter 1891

  • At first my eyes stared hopelessly at those lines that pronounced my doom -- that is, not a death-doom, of course, for I could easily find other securities, as many as I wanted -- but as I have already said, it was very annoying just the same.

    Plays by August Strindberg, Second series August Strindberg 1880

  • At first my eyes stared hopelessly at those lines that pronounced my doom -- that is, not a death-doom, of course, for I could easily find other securities, as many as I wanted -- but as I have already said, it was very annoying just the same.

    Plays by August Strindberg: Creditors. Pariah. August Strindberg 1880

  • It is in the interests of justice, doubtless, that thou be hunted down, and expiate by death-doom the crimes which thou and thy myrmidons have committed against society in the sight of God and man.

    Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

  • But I, albeit well nigh a-swoon, clung to a plank and was shortly after washed ashore by the send of the sea, for Allah of His mighty power had preserved me safe and sound from death-doom by the raging of the ocean, to the end that further troubles might befal me.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • As soon as Salcedo's death-doom was pronounced, his mother-in-law, accompanied by a number of relations and friends, repaired to the mine, flooded it with water, destroyed the works, and closed up the entrance so effectually that it was impossible to trace it out.

    Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

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