" "Do you s'pose old Peter'd befriend a man that did what he did?

"It is I who am thy slave, and my days shall be filled with desire to befriend thee.

He exhorted these to befriend their cause.

Not long before emancipation, Mr. Scotland was imprisoned for befriending the negroes.

MACDONALD, Lady Margaret, widow of Sir A. Macdonald of Slate, adored in Sky, iii. 383; v. 260; befriends the Pretender, v. 188; raises a monument to her son, v. 153.

Neglect, ridicule, vulgar abuse, slander, threats, intimidation, misrepresentation, and legal prosecutions, have been the mildest weapons employed against those who in the discharge of their sworn duties dared to befriend the oppressed.

" The kind-hearted Camillo was charmed with the spirit and propriety of Perdita's behaviour; and perceiving that the young prince was too deeply in love to give up his mistress at the command of his royal father, he thought of a way to befriend the lovers, and at the same time to execute a favourite scheme he had in his mind.

the Madame Guirlande I told you of, who befriended the poor orphans when they had no other friend.

This Humourist gives up all the Compliments which People of his own Condition could make to him, for the Pleasures of helping the Afflicted, supplying the Needy, and befriending the Neglected.

Disgusted with her master and with her life, she befriends another woman, even more helpless than herself, and by stratagem and force of will contrives her escape (1852).

Henry Miller, who had befriended the Indians, was murdered under conditions of peculiar atrocity, for the reason, it was supposed, that he had failed to notify the Indians of the movements of the soldiers as he had promised.

The doctor's presence at the banquet was unpropitious; it was natural he should befriend a countrywoman and a Huguenot like himself, and, possessing the royal ear, he might make such representations as he pleased to the King of what should occur.

And thou, whoe'er thou art, excuse the force These men have used; and, oh! befriend our course!" "Pray not for us," the nimble Dictys cried, Dictys, that could the main-top-mast bestride, And down the ropes with active vigour slide.

It was only when he looked up to heaven that he discovered a gleam of hope, in the persuasion that the God who had befriended Cromwell through life, would not desert him at the close of his career.[a] 2.

Santerre had seen Necker distribute corn to the poor of Paris in a time of famine, and now he was befriending the daughter for this noble act.

As Eliab befriended David (1 Chron.

His view in getting her to a play: a play, and a collation afterwards, greatly befriend a lover's designs; and why.

The Emperor of this region is none other than Nick Chopper, the tin man who had befriended Dorothy on her first visit to Oz.

The aged Jew often befriended the dolls' dressmaker, and she called him, in her fanciful way, "godmother.

He not only won for the English the renown of conquest, but befriended the early efforts after liberty.

"You would befriend God's enemies then?" "No, no; not if they are indeed so.

CONJUNCTIONS: "Quietness and silence both become and befriend religious exercises.

We would regret very much to do this, as we are here to befriend the Filipinos.

Lafeu, who came to fetch him, tried to comfort the countess for the loss of her late lord, and her son's sudden absence; and he said, in a courtier's flattering manner, that the king was so kind a prince, she would find in his majesty a husband, and that he would be a father to her son: meaning only that the good king would befriend the fortunes of Bertram.

Thou who wouldst befriend thy friends, seize each moment ere it flies.