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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

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

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 they were slumbering, fordone with toil, but their goodly weapons lay by them on the ground, all orderly, in three rows, and by each man his pair of steeds.

From The Iliad by Homer

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