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
It was as though, weary and foredone, he dismissed the young fellows to the logic of events—to life itself—for response, explanation, or punishment.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice
I lost the art, And left my womanhood foredone, When first I trafficked in the mart All for a mess of Bodley bun.
From The Battle of the Bays by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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
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
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