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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

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

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

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

Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone.

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)