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
Why duplicate it by the tedious unrolling, inch by inch, of the foredone reality?
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
Sure this is the wont of toilsome mariners, when they come from the deep to the land in their black ship, foredone with labour, and anon a longing for sweet food seizes their hearts.”
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang
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