unbefriended

Example Sentences

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“That is one thing sure; but I have seen this, Nanna: that the wicked is unbefriended in his death-pang.”

From Prisoners of Conscience by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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

He may have been a bit wild; but I can't leave poor Miles's son unbefriended in a foreign gaol.

From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Shaw, Bernard

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