Fighting

Usage examples of unruly.

Niall, his dark eyes betraying a hint of apprehension from beneath his thick silver hair, struck his staff on the bridge several times in an effort to silence the increasingly unruly throng, but the clamor continued unabated.

Until the next day, much to her surprise, the two most obstreperous and unruly students in her class had offered to do it for her.

He was a naturally aggressive and overbearing man but Kaft had the knack of making him feel adolescent and unruly.

My pet dodo Pickwick followed with her unruly son Alan padding grumpily after her.

Dysart had said Cornelius was older than his contemporaries at Breakspear and this man did indeed look nearer fifty than forty, unruly iron-grey hair framing a gaunt high-boned face, the brow hooded enough and the nose sufficiently hooked to add a sinewy hint of predacity to his relaxed and smiling features.

Robin Trower knew exactly what he was doing and had his unruly instrument under control.

In the framework of Strongbowism events were random and haphazard and life was unruly and unruled, given to whimsy in the beginning and shaken by chaos at the end, a kind of unbroken sensual wheel made up of many sexes and ages revolving through time on the point of an orgasm.

To these two he would always be an unruly boy, though by now he is as old and grizzled as they, and the last tinge of color will soon be gone from his own whitening fur.

Three other sons were engendered by Heaven and Earth, who were very Mighty and powerful, not to be lightly or frequently mentioned, Cottus, Briareus, Gyges, unruly and troublesome children, 145 For from their shoulders a hundred hands unattractively sprouted.

The unruly beast presently reared himself on end on his hind legs, and threw his lovely burthen from his back, and Jones caught her in his arms.

Besides the before-mentioned motive assigned to the present behaviour of Jones, the reader will be likewise pleased to recollect in his favour, that he was not at this time perfect master of that wonderful power of reason, which so well enables grave and wise men to subdue their unruly passions, and to decline any of these prohibited amusements.

The Jugged Hare, Corson had liked everything about him, from the unruly black hair falling into his face to the long, powerfully-built legs that made him fully as tall as she.

They were like a pack of unruly manitou, teasing little mysteries, forever following her about, asking questions, laying tricks, meeting her accusing looks with their guileless open gazes.

The Titans used the technique as an easy, nondestructive method of shutting Quentin down whenever he grew too unruly.

The coastline ran generally northeastward, and for much of its distance, offshore islands and bars formed a naturally protected waterway, as if God had meant to make his exploration safe from the whims of the unruly sea.