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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 John Addington Symonds
Who should have Priam's wealthy substance won, If watery Thetis had her child fordone?
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
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 Thomas Carlyle
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 Norman Duncan
