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So there he lay asleep, the steadfast goodly Odysseus, fordone with toil and drowsiness.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone.
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
His sympathy was ever with the workingman and those who grind fordone at the wheel of labor.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard
He moaned again, but so hopelessly, as being so weary and fordone, that Abbot Milo began to blubber out loud.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
And now the demigod was merely Rudolph Musgrave again, and she was not afraid any longer, but only inexpressibly fordone.
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell
