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

To the westward was an immense open track before him, in which, if unbefriended by either sun or moon, he might wander until life were at an end.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. by Collins, David

No one who cares for the past of the University should think without pity and friendliness of this lonely scholar, who in his lifetime was unpitied and unbefriended.

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew

And when he died, and his widow, in a foreign land, was raising a plain memorial over his ashes, her love and piety but made the little less; and she perished in unbefriended solitude.

From Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches by Anonymous

It was impossible to leave a woman unbefriended, in that helpless position and in that solitary place.

From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie