Africa, of a proud andunruly temper; though different from the Arab race, are of the same religion.
It had done its work, and the Chinese naturally regarded the presence of this formidable and somewhat unruly force with no little apprehension.
Charles Gordon with a brother (William Augustus) more unruly than himself, finding the time hang heavily upon their hands during the vacation, employed themselves in various ways.
The tenor of his long life was as eccentric and unruly as the manner of his death was strange and horrible.
The innkeeper made a horrid grimace; but this was a piece of bad luck that might readily befall a tenant in these unruly times, and he was perhaps glad to make his peace so easily.
Thenceforth the dust and blood of that unruly epoch passed them by.
It has been believed man was a free agent, because it has been imagined that his soul could at will recall ideas, which sometimes suffice to check his most unruly desires.
Does his boiling blood, his unruly imagination, the igneous fluid that circulates in his veins, permit him to make, enable him to apply true experience in the moment when it is wanted?
He had lived an unhappy life in his northern realm, buffeted to and fro by unruly nobles and domineering ministers of the Scottish Kirk.
But he found the great ealdormen unruly subjects; they would not obey a young boy as they had obeyed the great Eadgar.
The money thus received was used to hire a great body of mercenary men-at-arms, whom the king knew to be both more obedient and more efficient soldiers than the unruly feudal levies.
King of Scotland, cast over the cliffs of Kinghorn by the leap of an unruly horse.
These latter went off to harry France, but King Guthrum and the majority abode in their new settlement, and were not such unruly or unfaithful subjects to Alfred as might have been expected from their antecedents.
In this land of Gwynedd native princes still ruled, and proved mostunruly vassals to the English crown.
Ever since the massacre of 1641, the Irish rebels had been fighting with the Marquis of Ormonde, Strafford's successor in the governance of that unruly realm.
They were utterly unable to restrain their arrogant and unruly army, which made and unmade sovereigns at Lahore like the Roman praetorians of the third century.
It was Count Hugh of La Marche who in revenge led the next rising of the unruly French vassals of John.
YOU want a flogging, that's what you do;" said a parent to his unruly son.
I had no stick or weapon of any kind, but still I knew how to manage unruly cattle as sailors do when they were sent on board ship alive.
That tongue of yours will get you into more trouble than it will business, I expect, Johnny Target; it's an unruly member, and requires a constant ruler over it.
By persistent hammering I have succeeded in beating the idea of the painted herbarium into this naughty, unruly head.
Sidenote: Unruly Leader] At first the weight alone of the reins would tire her, and of course there are more chances of mishaps with four horses than with two.
As has before been observed, the Turks now struggle for existence in Al-Hijaz with a soldier ever in arrears, and officers unequal to the task of managing an unruly people.
The fair sex is so unruly in this country, that strong measures are necessary to coerce it, and in the arts of deceit men have here little or no chance against women.
The sole excuse for this was that he had been unruly in protesting against the treatment which he was receiving.
Jameson himself, who was threatened by some of the unruly ones and freely hissed and hooted, but was protected by the officers in charge.
To introduce cohesion and discipline into these unruly forces was the almost superhuman task Napoleon had undertaken.
Almost as soon as they had landed in Corsica there was trouble between the sailors and the unruly volunteers, three of the latter being hanged in consequence.
The branks was a species of iron mask, with a gag so contrived as to enter the mouth and forcibly hold down the unruly member.
The crowd was unruly enough even before execution, but afterwards it grew perfectly frantic.
The first authentic mention of them is in a statute of Edward III, by which they were to be applied to unruly labourers.
The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing.
Out in the street again, Blake heaved a sigh of relief, for even this little harmless adventure had been a trial to his unruly nerves.
Time and again he had balked, had shied like a frightened horse; time and again he had roweled himself with cruel spurs and ridden down his unruly terrors by force of will.
She was a madcap, fly-away creature whose ravishing lace was framed by an unruly mop of dark hair, which no amount of attention could hold in place.
The disorderly and unruly standing army of the Russian tsars, the Strelets, sided with Sophia.
The king's intention was, no doubt, to secure himself and the prince against the unruly nobles, though the queen's Roman Catholic tendencies were probably another reason for his decision.
A government so vacillating and impotent could not command the respect of unrulysailors and a lawless soldiery.
All the passions which the preceding government had raised and kept employed still survived in peace; and in default of a legitimate object theseunruly feelings found, unfortunately, ample scope in the grievances of their country.
And over in that meadow, she had once been forced to take refuge in a tree from the hostile demonstrations of an unruly heifer whose calf she had annoyed with overtures of friendship.
Then, together, the pair pursued the unruly fowls, and pressed upon them and buffeted them, until the turkeys were right glad to defy the vision of the old brown sensationalist, and take refuge in their house.
The unruly weather, which became more and more tempestuous, rendered The hospitable suggestion unanswerable.
One dark unruly night, she issued secretly out of a small postern gate of the castle, which the enemy had neglected to guard.
Her attitude toward him had not changed; she still dealt with him as the school teacher deals with the unruly scholar--with a personal aloofness that promised an ever-widening gulf if he persisted in defying her authority.
Betty's voice had been quietly conversational, but it had carried a subtle sting with its direct mockery, and Calumet felt again as he had felt the night before, like an unruly scholar being rebuked by his teacher.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unruly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
