unbefriended

Example Sentences

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He had chosen to try the issue alone and unbefriended.

From Father Stafford by Hope, Anthony

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

So Berry was unbefriended while the storm raged around him.

From The Sport of the Gods by Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Thou art not left unbefriended and alone to buffet the storms of the wilderness.

From The Words of Jesus by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)