unbefriended

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

On that dreary waste of waters He had died, and left her mourning, All unguided, unbefriended.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard

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