forespent
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The words he utters are the message of a laborer far forespent, voiced with mingled weariness and hope, well towards the sunset of a weary day.
From Project Gutenberg
Within this place, that from the gloom of Eld Still meets the light, a people came and went Like whirls of dust between its columns blown— An alien race, whose record, shadow-held, Is sealed with those of others long forespent That died in sunless planets lost and lone.
From Project Gutenberg
Major Yashio Inouye, military attache of the Japanese embassy at Buenos Aires, dropped his arms, strength forespent in efforts to protect his wife, Mme.
From Time Magazine Archive
And this happened to the said Charles at his need; for being with his galleys on the Pisan seas, by tempest of the sea they were dispersed, and Charles with three of his galleys, utterly forespent, arrived at the Pisan port.
From Project Gutenberg
O woman with the wild thing's heart, Old sin hath set a snare for thee: In the forest ways forespent thou art, But the hunter Christ shall pity thee.
From Project Gutenberg
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