Though he drudged in a narrow round, and his life was as hard and real as poverty and his father's intemperance could make it, he mentally lived and found his solace in a world as large and unreal as an uncurbed fancy could create.
After that Arden went regularly with them to church, and tried to give sincere attention to the service, but his uncurbed fancy was wandering to the ends of the earth most of the time; or his thoughts were dwelling in rapt attention on Edith.
What a wild, uncurbed imagination had mastered his morbid nature, as he lived a hermit's life among the practical people of Pushton!
What must such become under the influence of enervating luxury, flattery, and uncurbed selfishness from childhood?
The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion but realities of intellect from which the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
Of the beginnings of his thought we can know nothing, but the fantastic forms in which it is first manifest compel us to regard him as a being whose feelings were uncurbed by reason.
Thy lord in daily jeopardy at Troy, While here a populace uncurbed may cry "Down with the council, down!
His uncurbedimagination conjured up all kinds of weird and grotesque imagery.
The death of Pericles was, for the next seven years, during which the place of that great man was supplied by Cleon a currier, followed by all the evils of an uncurbed democracy.
After the abrogation of the kingship, the date of which is not precisely known, the constitution assumed the form of an uncurbed democracy, which, as usual, paved the way for the usurpation of one individual.
Public discipline was destroyed by oppression and violent deeds, and domestic discipline by uncurbed lust.
If a single spring could work such destruction what would be the result of the uncurbed power of ocean and seas?
This was the uncurbed tendency of the age which ultimated into universal custom.
That uncurbed dominion of the senses, to which his very boyhood had abandoned itself, found a willing slave in the man.
In those brief moments he remembered the wild, uncurbed passion of her love; how that she had exalted him as her idol, as the one person who held her future in his hands, the one person whose kiss gave life to her.
She was a clever woman, and with feminine intuition knew exactly the power she possessed over the man whom she loved with a passion so fierce and uncurbed that she had been led to overstep the conventionalities.
At length, dark with uncurbed fury, it pours its muddy tide into the reluctant Mississippi.
We may fancy the current of his thoughts, the turmoil of his uncurbed passions, as he revolved the treacheries which, to his savage mind, seemed fair and honorable.