unbridling

When money (especially with the Supreme Court's recent unbridling of corporate dollars to campaigns) occupies such a prominent place in the political selection process, those without that commodity suffer.

Matthew Anderson: All Hat, No Cattle 2010

But that traveller had in the meantime gone stealthily round to the back of the homestead, and peering along the pinion-end of the house Roger discerned him unbridling and haltering his horse with his own hands in the shed there.

A Changed Man 2006

It involved unsad-dling and unbridling the tall black horse, then demonstrating that I could still mount and ride him without a scrap of harness on him.

Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

The haunting sound startled the sensitive chestnut mare he was unbridling nearly out of her highly bred stockings.

Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

A certain orgiastic licence crept in, an unbridling of the physical appetites, which has ever been a source of sorrow and anger to the most earnest Christians and even led the Puritans of the seventeenth century to condemn all festivals as diabolical.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

God alone knows the good that has come out of all this suffering, the still greater good that will come; it is why He has permitted it, and why He has not put an end to the unbridling of criminal, but free, wills to which it is due.

The Diary of a French Army Chaplain Felix, Klein 1915

Never had he experienced such a stimulation of his whole being, such an unbridling of his blind instincts.

The Teeth of the Tiger Maurice Leblanc 1902

An open space, under the overhanging branches of a huge evergreen oak, was now selected for the camp for the night; and hither Ham and the two boys brought their horses, and, after unsaddling and unbridling them, gave them a scanty supply of grass, bought at fifty cents a big hand full, and a little barley, at a dollar a quart.

The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 Everett McNeil 1895

I was assisted to a secluded spot where a little reflection and a little unbridling of pent up emotion restored me to such a courageous state that I determined to take the Captain's advice and return to my unfinished dinner.

Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890

Then did he sleep without unbridling until eight o'clock in the next morning.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I Various 1885