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His body fordone with age is by them considered to be full of the spirit of wisdom.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

Thy people, O self-deluder, thou'lt leave in mourning for thee;      Ay, all their lives they shall sorrow for thee, fordone and      slain.

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

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

Now dimly lighted of the rising moon by turns they bore Gudruda down the mountain side, till at length, utterly fordone, they saw the fires of Middalhof.

From Eric Brighteyes by Haggard, Henry Rider

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

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew