unbefriended

Example Sentences

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I was so poor, so weak, so unbefriended.

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia

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

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

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

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

And when he died, and his widow, in a foreign land, was raising a plain memorial over his ashes, her love and piety but made the little less; and she perished in unbefriended solitude.

From Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches by Anonymous