domesday
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Last fortnight a little grey pamphlet made its appearance in Oxford, containing many of these old rules, resurrected from ancient domesday books and dusted off, or written freshly to meet modern conditions.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you both stop here till domesday," said Geoffrey, "you'll get nothing more out of me.
From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
In this division we have in hand among other things the preparation of a domesday book for the Province.
From The Ontario Archives Scope of its Operations by Alexander Fraser
There dwell in the sky many kind of beings, that there shall remain until domesday arrive; some they are good, and some they work evil.
From Brut by Eugene Mason
God's acre gazing toward the sky, 'Midst sombre shade 'neath angel's eye Thou sleepest till the domesday knell.
From The Mound Builders by George Bryce
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