unbefriended

Example Sentences

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

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

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)

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

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

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

From Fairfax and His Pride by Vorst, Marie Van