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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
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 Norman Duncan
His sympathy was ever with the workingman and those who grind fordone at the wheel of labor.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard
For there, with bodily anguish keen, With Indian heats at last fordone, With public toil and private teen— Thou sank'st, alone.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
