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Thro' thousand ages hath thy childhood run: On timeless ruin hath thy glory been: From the forgotten night of loves fordone Thou risest in the dawn of hopes unseen.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

So there he lay asleep, the steadfast goodly Odysseus, fordone with toil and drowsiness.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

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

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 Symonds, John Addington

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