forespent
Britishadjective
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Major Yashio Inouye, military attache of the Japanese embassy at Buenos Aires, dropped his arms, strength forespent in efforts to protect his wife, Mme.
From Time Magazine Archive
The words he utters are the message of a laborer far forespent, voiced with mingled weariness and hope, well towards the sunset of a weary day.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
But from their midst one came towards the well, Not trudging like a man forespent with toil, But frisking like a child at holiday, With light steps.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus
We must receive him According to the honour of his sender; And towards himself, his goodness forespent on us, We must extend our notice.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
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