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The way is long, and when he returns in the morning he looks fordone with weariness.

From Some Chinese Ghosts by Hearn, Lafcadio

Horses alike and riders were travel-tainted and fordone.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

And he wept and groaned and repeated the following verses: Indeed, it sufficeth the lover the time that his tears have run;      As for affliction, of patience it hath him all fordone.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

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

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