This practice was often used in taming unruly horses.

He chooses the broken horse, but it falls over and dies of old age later that night; he then is forced to ride the unruly horse.

In yet another metaphor, Freud described the ego as the rider of an unruly horse.

In fact, the only focus of her attention is her favorite project, the education of an unruly black horse called Twister.

Ecclesiastical history faults Berthold's unruly horse for his untimely demise.

In 1998, she was kicked by an unruly horse and is still feeling the effects.

Officers in the army wanted to punish him but because he had not broke the law they ordered him at riding school to ride a unruly horse.

The device, placed in her mouth like the bit of an unruly horse, would never be removed.

Truth shook her head, as if imagination were an unruly horse that had balked at the jump.

The thing was an unruly horse, and, as I say, it happened.