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
They reached the shore, and sat down like men desperate and foredone in a great idol temple.
From True Words for Brave Men by Charles Kingsley
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 Andrew Lang
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
No god can cancel deeds foredone, Or thy old coils unwind!
From Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy
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