unbefriended

Example Sentences

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I was a poor, uneducated, unbefriended, mountain girl, raised from nothingness by him.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Cried the Poet, unknown, unbefriended, As the vision, that lured him to follow, With the mist and the darkness blended, And the dream of his life was ended; How cold are thy baths, Apollo!—Longfellow.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland

Mrs. Hurley is still there, the "Mend of the poor" for miles around, carrying sympathy, advice, and assistance to thousands of unbefriended creatures, and teaching faithfully all day in the School.

From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring

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