unbefriended

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Mrs. Hurley is still there, the "Mend of the poor" for miles around, carrying sympathy, advice, and assistance to thousands of unbefriended creatures, and teaching faithfully all day in the School.

From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring

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

No one who cares for the past of the University should think without pity and friendliness of this lonely scholar, who in his lifetime was unpitied and unbefriended.

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew

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

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