fordone

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There, once more, rose frightful struggle; desperate attempt by the fordone Prussians to retake that Height.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas

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 Hubbard, Elbert

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

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