What is "unharnessed"

Usage examples of "unharnessed".

Though the breed was first considered intractable, and indeed some consideration was given to their destruction, as too dangerous to be left unharnessed, during the reign of Elizabeth I new methods of harnessing were developed which secured the general domestication of the breed, and they were instrumental in the destruction of the Armada.

If I don’t send him and the beast ends up unharnessed, we will have a yowl from his entire damned family, and a question taken up in Parliament, like as not.

She disengaged the sensory interfaces attached to her skin, unharnessed, and floated to the bow airlock.

And other stable boys quickly unharnessed the six dusty and windblown pony slaves who had been pulling it.

I was unharnessed with the phallus still tied firmly in place, and I fell down on my hands and knees and whimpered at Gareth's feet, the bit still in my mouth, the reins dragging.

Two hours had passed in Wogan's vain search,—two hours of daylight, during which Clementina had sat in an unharnessed carriage in the market square.

Grinning negroes, excited as always at a party, were leading the animals to the barnyard to be unharnessed and unsaddled for the day.

He unharnessed his horse, put it up for the night, and entered the cottage.

He unharnessed the horse, entered the hut, and there he saw his elder brother, Simon the Soldier and his wife, sitting at supper.

The first thing he saw on riding up to the space where Tushin's guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses.

He unharnessed the horse and when it had cooled down gave it water which he had got at the well.

Tarma, grumbling, took both mares over to the side of the paved area and gave them the command to stay on the grass, unsaddled and unharnessed them, and began grooming them to within an inch of their lives.