unbefriended

Example Sentences

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Heavens! was he turning soft-hearted at his time of life, that he should feel so unaccountably stirred by the bare act of coming to visit this ailing and unbefriended stranger?

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram

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

I found him, lonely and unbefriended, the very next night after our talk, at the Dugald Delane's burra-khana.

From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Kipling, Rudyard

It seemed to be his miserable destiny to rust away, useless, unbefriended, and forgotten.

From Seekers after God by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

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

From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie