unbefriended

Example Sentences

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I couldn't run away to be married in that desolate, unbefriended fashion.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

He thinks I am poor and unbefriended, and he knows that I have no case.

From Fairfax and His Pride by Vorst, Marie Van

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

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

Forsaken scene! how like to thee The fate of unbefriended worth!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various