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He followed the outer boulevards for a long time, and at length, fordone with weariness, lay down on the edge of a piece of waste land.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
And now that gentle lord was all fordone with sweat and toil, he and his charger; and so weary were they that scarcely could they any longer breathe.'
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
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
Let bath be made For such men fordone, Wash thou hands and feet thereof, Comb their hair and dry them Ere the coffin has them; Then bid them sleep full sweetly.
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by William Morris
His sympathy was ever with the workingman and those who grind fordone at the wheel of labor.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard
