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Horses alike and riders were travel-tainted and fordone.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

He came across them as they fared slowly down the bent, looking weary and fordone.

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May

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 Cabell, James Branch

He was near fordone, poor man! but still entreatingly prayed, in sentences broken by consumptive spasms, for wisdom and faith and the fire of the Holy Ghost in this dire emergency.

From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Duncan, Norman

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 Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)