Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me.
The pope and the emperor befriended this foundation; Frederick II.
He also befriended the officers of British ships stationed in North America.
You've entertained, helped, maybe even befriended me over these last few months.
The later years of his life were darkened by a scandal which Beecher's personal, political and theological enemies used for a time effectively to shadow a reputation previously above reproach, he being charged by Theodore Tilton, whom he had befriended, with having had improper relations with his (Tilton's) wife.