foredo
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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What was in them and his face to make her afraid? eyes and face of a lover foredoing speech.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
“But oh,” they sang together, “But oh, both day and night, My heart’s delight, Must one day leave foredone All might, all gone.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
There are blind ways provided, the foredone Heart-weary player in this pageant-world Drops out by, letting the main masque defile By the conspicuous portal: I am through— Just through!
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
No god can cancel deeds foredone, Or thy old coils unwind!
From Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy
Grettir marvelled how that might be, for withal he was utterly foredone.
From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris
The Duke foredone and weary Sank in the wilder'd breaks; Him in the tempest dreary He on his shoulders takes.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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