unbefriended

Example Sentences

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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

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

Participles, or participial adjectives, reversed in sense by the prefix un; as, unaspiring, unavailing, unbelieving, unbattered, uninjured, unbefriended.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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

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

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft