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
I look aback to see what folk about me yet do wend, But all, foredone, had fallen away, their weary bodies spent, Some all amid the fire had cast, some unto earth had sent.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
Look therewithal on those two burgs with broken walls foredone!
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
Then I sank—knew 'twas quite a foredone thing That misery should be To the end!
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
And from the sea shall mine own death come, the gentlest death that may be, which shall end me, foredone, with smooth old age, and the folk shall dwell happily around.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
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