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Where they have crouched and crawled and prayed I stand, the self-doomed, unafraid, Unfellowed, friendless and alone, Indifferent as the herringbone, Firm as the mountain ridges where I flash my antlers on the air.

From Time Magazine Archive

The light from the setting sun still glorified her form, and was reflected a little way within the darksome den, discovering so terrible a gloom that the maiden shuddered for its self-doomed inhabitant.

From The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

"Master Tristan, perform your office upon this self-doomed felon."

From If I Were King by McCarthy, Justin

Thus the great banker stood, a colossus of wealth and stability to the eye, though ready to crumble at a touch; and indeed self-doomed, for bankruptcy was now his game.

From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles

The great banker stood, a colossus of wealth and stability to the eye, though ready to crumble at a touch, and, indeed, self-doomed; for bankruptcy was now his game.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur