unbefriended

Example Sentences

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Heavens! was he turning soft-hearted at his time of life, that he should feel so unaccountably stirred by the bare act of coming to visit this ailing and unbefriended stranger?

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram

I was so poor, so weak, so unbefriended.

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia

On that dreary waste of waters He had died, and left her mourning, All unguided, unbefriended.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard

I found him, lonely and unbefriended, the very next night after our talk, at the Dugald Delanes' burra-khana.

From Under the Deodars by Kipling, Rudyard

A higher boon than these his prayer demands: O grant me, Phoebus, calm content, Strength unimpaired, a mind entire, Old age without dishonour spent, Nor unbefriended of the lyre.

From Horace by Tuckwell, William