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Meanings of so unruly in English

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Usage of so unruly in English
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The boys had never been so unruly; the girls never so inattentive.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
2
He will listen to you yet; but do not be so unruly.
Doctor Thorne
3
His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short.
The Sea of Monsters
4
If your tongue is so unruly I would recommend complete silence.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
5
Fortunate man, your hair cannot be so unruly as mine.
Graustark
6
Something bucked inside him, a feeling so unruly he thought he might be sick.
Flesh and blood
7
The boys are so unruly; and I do not get up to it half my time.
The Channings: A Story
8
No true German would allow his arrangements to be interfered with by so unruly a thing as the solar system.
Three Men on the Bummel
9
After long and toilsome labour she appeared, but her demeanour was so unruly that I was forced to chastise her.
Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic,...
10
Sometimes his blood is so unruly that he feels the urge to grab anyone passing by and make her his woman.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
11
His thick head of steel gray hair was so unruly, he looked as though he had come through a wind tunnel.
Heart of gold
12
L'Isle's flushed cheek and compressed lips, showed that he felt the taunt, while Sir Rowland exclaimed, in surprise: Are they so unruly?
The Actress in High Life / An Episode in Winter Quarters
13
How he got so unruly a beast as the birch canoe to follow it in that tearing volume of water was always another.
The Forest
14
We suddenly heard a noise of distress; I hastened down-stairs, and found the horse so unruly, that nobody durst approach or mount him.
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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I know you both to be so unruly, that nothing less than Lady P.'s spirit or mine could keep any authority over you.
Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar'...
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Nay he himself, so unruly are the hands and feet even of a parson in a passion, was one of the most eager combatants.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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