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The way is long, and when he returns in the morning he looks fordone with weariness.

From Some Chinese Ghosts by Hearn, Lafcadio

Now they were slumbering, fordone with toil, but their goodly weapons lay by them on the ground, all orderly, in three rows, and by each man his pair of steeds.

From The Iliad by Homer

And he wept and groaned and repeated the following verses: Indeed, it sufficeth the lover the time that his tears have run;      As for affliction, of patience it hath him all fordone.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

He was near fordone, poor man! but still entreatingly prayed, in sentences broken by consumptive spasms, for wisdom and faith and the fire of the Holy Ghost in this dire emergency.

From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Duncan, Norman

Who should have Priam's wealthy substance won, If watery Thetis had her child fordone?

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)