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He followed the outer boulevards for a long time, and at length, fordone with weariness, lay down on the edge of a piece of waste land.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
The ruffled fag fordone with care And brooding, God would ease this pain: Him soothest thou and smoothest down Till some content return again.
From John Marr and Other Poems by Herman Melville
So there he lay asleep, the steadfast goodly Odysseus, fordone with toil and drowsiness.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
Lo, I'm a man fordone, in this world and the next, Except my spright of God be solaced and consoled!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne
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
