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Unrestrained   /ˌənristrˈeɪnd/   Listen
Unrestrained

adjective
1.
Not subject to restraint.
2.
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion.  Synonyms: delirious, excited, frantic, mad.  "Something frantic in their gaiety" , "A mad whirl of pleasure"






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"Unrestrained" Quotes from Famous Books



... Looks at the World (CASSELL), a collection of "unrestrained remarks on contemporary matters"—aeroplanes, CHESTERTON and BELLOC, libraries, labour unrest, the Great State, and the like—by Mr. H. G. WELLS, is to be delighted or infuriated according to your natural habit of mind. If established in tolerable comfort ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 • Various

... home-habits embodying a selfishness regarded embodied in families, and which perhaps are as a mere matter of course. There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable. Few seem to understand that the true end is not to keep their children from doing what is wrong, though that is on the way to it, but to render them incapable of doing wrong. While one ...
— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald

... restless, disturbed, questioning women the world over, who, clinging to beautiful old myths, yet reached out diffident hands to grasp new guidance. The violence and nurtured hatred of some of them offended her deeply; the egregious selfishness of others seemed to her as a flaming sin. Militant, unrestrained, avid of coarse and obvious things, they presented a shameful contrast to this little, gentle, dreaming keeper of a boarding-house who sat beside her, her dove's eyes filled with ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie

... next to Rex, let the full weight of his portion of tree-trunk rest upon Gabbett, in order to express his unrestrained admiration of Mr. Rex's sarcasm. "Ain't the Dandy ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke

... mountains, seamed with gloomy ravines, the sources of perennial streams; of the vast fertile lowlands in which the republic of vegetation is as an unruly, ungoverned mob, clamouring for topmost places in unrestrained excess of energy; of still lagoons, where the sacred pink lotus and the blue and white water-lily are rivals in grace of form, in tint ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield


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