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
If God were so pleased, I would that were foredone.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task foredone.
From The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores All with weary task foredone, &c.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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