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Thy people, O self-deluder, thou'lt leave in mourning for thee;      Ay, all their lives they shall sorrow for thee, fordone and      slain.

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

The ruffled fag fordone with care   And brooding, God would ease this pain: Him soothest thou and smoothest down   Till some content return again.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman

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

From Some Chinese Ghosts by Hearn, Lafcadio

He moaned again, but so hopelessly, as being so weary and fordone, that Abbot Milo began to blubber out loud.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Other pray'r hath he none Save this, "Sir, let me begone Whence I came, since fordone My expertise."

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Hewlett, Maurice Henry