fordone
adjective
exhausted with fatigue.
Example Sentences
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“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
Grettir marvelled how that might be, for withal he was utterly foredone.
From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris
And from the sea shall thine own death come, the gentlest death that may be, which shall end thee foredone with smooth old age, and the folk shall dwell happily around thee.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
Then I sank—knew 'twas quite a foredone thing That misery should be To the end!
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
If God were so pleased, I would that were foredone.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
