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  • This feare grew so powerfull in her, that to prevent the like heavy doome from falling on her, she studied (by all her best and commendable meanes, and therein bestowed all the night season) how to change her hatred into kinde love, which at the length she fully obtained, and then purposed to prosecute in this manner.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Very penitent hee was, and sorie for his misdemeanour, and all of vs did our best endeuour to obtain his pardon: but (the orders and ordinances wherevnto our whole company was sworne being read before vs) we were constrained to surcease our importunate suit, and he for the example of others to vndergo the seuere doome that was allotted him.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • And take my teares for tropheys to thy tombe, Let thy lost blood, thy vnlost fame increase, Make kingly eares thy praises second wombe: That when all tongues to all reports surcease, Yet shall thy deeds, out-liue the day of doome, For even Angels, in the heasens shall sing, _Grinuile_ vnconquered died, still conquering.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Thys ys alyche oure doome [27]; the great, the smalle, 35

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Blake [68] stondethe future doome, and joie dothe mee alyse.

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • _Blake_ stondeth future doome, and joie doth mee alyse.

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • And because mention is made of it in mens wils and testaments, I warrant you there is none will set his hand to them, til the physitian hath given his last doome, and utterly forsaken him.

    That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die. 1909

  • M the morning Cloudy and wind down the the river at 4 P.M. passed the doome and lowest village of Barking Squirels. this is also the highest up the river where I observed the fox Squirel in the bottom above the doome on N.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Pity me 'tis to morrow that I must submitt my self to a Prison the time being expird & though I indeauerd all day yesterday to get a ffew days more I can not because they say they see I am dallied w {th} all & so they say I shall be for euer: so I can not reuoke my doome

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • And through his gen'rals wounds his own doome speakes,

    The Lucasta Poems Richard Lovelace 1637

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