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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
predoom .
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Shadow Play on Republic Day, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1. shadow play on republic day predoomed thoughts that swarm and slay selling flags to keep hunger from knocking on an empty stomach by the way enslaved to karmic poverty in Mumbai that was once bombay a god gone stone deaf to whom you pray
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Shadow Play on Republic Day, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1. shadow play on republic day predoomed thoughts that swarm and slay selling flags to keep hunger from knocking on an empty stomach by the way enslaved to karmic poverty in Mumbai that was once bombay a god gone stone deaf to whom you pray
Shadow Play on Republic Day « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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Shadow Play on Republic Day, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1. shadow play on republic day predoomed thoughts that swarm and slay selling flags to keep hunger from knocking on an empty stomach by the way enslaved to karmic poverty in Mumbai that was once bombay a god gone stone deaf to whom you pray
2008 January 29 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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God in his pity, wisdom and goodness, has opened the way for a part of her crushed children, predoomed by bloody superstitions to altars of death, to be delivered from immolation and find an asylum under a form of ameliorated service in the bosom of this country; and here their children have been born, elevated and blessed under redeeming auspices.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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After taking stock of himself and finding that he still had his pistol and ammunition, some matches, a little tobacco, a canteen full of water and a razor, Bradley made himself comfortable upon the mat and was soon asleep, knowing that an attempted escape in the darkness without knowledge of his surroundings would be predoomed to failure.
Out of Time's Abyss Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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To attempt to drag the last veil from the face of Truth in any of her thousand shapes is surely a folly predoomed to failure.
Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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But when the young man moved from Simon Square into the Townend manse, and began to preach twice a Sunday to the clear-headed business men and the sore-hearted women of many cares who filled the kirk, his ignorance of all but these theological books, as well as an innocence of the motives and difficulties of men and women (which would have been childlike had it not been childish), predoomed him to failure.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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Although a politician of the school of Grattan, and wholly untainted with French principles, he identified himself absolutely with his unhappy clients, "predoomed to death."
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Although a politician of the school of Grattan, and wholly untainted with French principles, he identified himself absolutely with his unhappy clients, "predoomed to death."
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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MYSTERIOUS impulse at the heart, which never suffers us to be at rest, which urges us onward as by an unseen yet irresistible law -- human planets in a petty orbit, hurried forever and forever, till our course is run and our light is quenched -- through the circle of a dark and impenetrable destiny! art thou not some faint forecast and type of our wanderings hereafter; of the unslumbering nature of the soul; of the everlasting progress which we are predoomed to make through the countless steps and realms and harmonies in the infinite creation?
Devereux — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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