The precautions, adopted by the Earl of Dunbar, to preserve peace on the borders, bore peculiarly hard upon a body of men, long accustomed to the most ungoverned licence.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
Poor, shabby Sandy Morley had been and was her only interpretation of youth as it had touched her personally-he and her ungoverned imagination had supplied the motive power, so far, for the foundation of her emotions.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock
Neverthelesse I cannot help fretting over the Remembrance of that Part wherein he spake such bitter Things of my "most ungoverned Passion for Revellings and Junketings."
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning