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

They wander unsettled and unbefriended through our land, or sit indolent, abject and sorrowful, by the "streams which witness their captivity."

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

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

He was genuinely sympathetic, especially towards the hopes and struggles of the young and the unbefriended.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine

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