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 Housman, Clemence
“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
They breathe immortal in the prose of Livy, in the verse of Silius they are vain 'shadows of men foredone'.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
This shallow pool which ruffling in the breeze, Spurts gold and azure at the morning sun, Ere night will be a blot of slimy lees, By the absorbing heat and wind foredone.
From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.
Wherefore a woeful wight am I, foredone and all distraught for love.
From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery
For indeed thou art my light, without thee this world were place of emptiness and gloom and I a lonely wanderer lost and all foredone.
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery
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