Predestines

Usage examples of dooms.

That was the night the De Dooms ammunition dump was blown out of existence.

The occurrence at De Dooms in Holland was mysterious, spectacular and tragic: the one at Metnitz in Germany was a good deal less mysterious, unspectacular and faintly comic.

Three soldiers were on guard at the Dutch ammunition dump, set in a concrete bunker one and a half kilometres north of the village of De Dooms, when, about one-thirty in the morning, the only two citizens who were awake in the village reported a staccato burst of machine-pistol fire - it was later established that the guards were carrying machine-pistols -followed immediately by the sound of a gigantic explosion, which was later found to have blasted in the earth a crater sixty metres wide by twelve deep.

That was the night the De Dooms ammunition dump was blown out of existence.

Round in his urn the blended balls he rolls, Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.

His sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain, And long for arbitrary lords again, With ignominy scourg'd, in open sight, He dooms to death deserv'd, asserting public right.

Then had she been of my celestial train, And shunn'd the fate that dooms her to be slain.

Crom was their chief, and he lived on a great mountain, whence he sent forth dooms and death.

No watchmen passed, for even the thieves of the Maul shunned the temples, where strange dooms had been known to fall on violators.