unbefriended

Example Sentences

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It was impossible to leave a woman unbefriended, in that helpless position and in that solitary place.

From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie

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)

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

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

From Fairfax and His Pride by Vorst, Marie Van

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

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