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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

Horses alike and riders were travel-tainted and fordone.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Also another gret armee and voiage fordone for defaut and lak of spedy payment this yere of Crist Gyen.

From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown

Let bath be made For such men fordone, Wash thou hands and feet thereof, Comb their hair and dry them Ere the coffin has them; Then bid them sleep full sweetly.

From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William

And now the demigod was merely Rudolph Musgrave again, and she was not afraid any longer, but only inexpressibly fordone.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch