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Lo, I'm a man fordone, in this world and the next, Except my      spright of God be solaced and consoled!

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

And now the demigod was merely Rudolph Musgrave again, and she was not afraid any longer, but only inexpressibly fordone.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch

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

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

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