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Usage examples of befriended.

Esther was an agent, and the mother of a boy he had befriended on his journalism course.

Churchill had been befriended by a man named Hanfstaengel, who told him the Fuehrer was coming to the hotel at five that day, and would be pleased to meet him.

Do it for the homeless boy you befriended, and the dealer in the nightclub.

I think Wells agreed to be befriended by Vince for a very specific reason.

Harpies were in a general way abominable creatures, but this one they had befriended seemed quite human.

I should be no worse off were he to learn that I have befriended you than I now am.

There was Lukedi, the Bagego who had befriended him in the village of Nyuto, and Mpingu, the slave of Dion Splendidus, who had betrayed him, and now, in the light from the little barred window, he recognized also another Bagego—Ogonyo, who still cast fearful eyes upon Tarzan as one might upon any person who was on familiar terms with the ghost of one's grandfather.

He was hidden close by as Doc and the girl started looking for the guard who had befriended her.

The body of the guard who had befriended Barbara Hughes lay at one side of the clearing.

And the conceit pleased him, and he felt sympathy for the strange, will-o'-the-wisp editor who had so befriended Hawaii and the missionaries, until he suddenly looked at the name again: James Jackson Jarves!

Anyone who befriended or sought to cooperate with the Psychlos was doomed from the beginning.

Even if it were not for your open-handed generosity, I would be no poorer for having befriended you.