for-spent

Updated: May 15, 2025

But the fierce river dragged his legs, and buffeted him, and hurtled at him, and drew him down, as it were an enemy wrestling with him, so that he had much ado to come where the brachet was, and more to win back again, with the brachet in his arm, to the dry land. Which when he had done he was clean for-spent and fell upon the ground as a dead man.

Henry Van Dyke - The Blue Flower