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
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 Morris, William
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 Lang, Andrew
Then Odysseus of many counsels spake among them craftily: 'Friends, an old man and foredone with travail may in no wise fight with a younger.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew
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 James, William
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