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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

For there, with bodily anguish keen, With Indian heats at last fordone, With public toil and private teen— Thou sank'st, alone.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

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

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

When Messire Gawain heareth these tidings, they touch his heart right sore, so that he goeth the straightest he may toward the assembly, and the squire with him that was sore fordone.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian