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
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
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
No god can cancel deeds foredone, Or thy old coils unwind!
From Poems of the Past and the Present by Hardy, Thomas
Pausing there, perforce, to breathe her, Faint, and frenzied, and foredone, She beheld the sea beneath her Basking lucid in the sun.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
