1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Tiptoft f. lxviii The Earle of Warwicke..triumphing with his..newe vnprisoned prince king Henry.

1709 S. Cobb Female Reign viii. 10 So rapid flows th' unprison'd Stream!

1764 J. Ogilvie Providence iii. 185 Just are All thy ways To mortal man; tho' fathomless and dark To finite reason, e'er th' unprison'd mind Hath shot the gulph of Death!

1836 U.S. Tel. 11 Aug. Nature, already exhausted in her previous struggle..yields at once to her unprisoned enemy...No earthly power can now arrest the progress of the disease.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lii. 88 Perhaps not one of the unprisoned souls had been able quite to separate itself in living thought from its old companion.

1906 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 496/1 The men seem driven by the sound of their own unprisoned syllables, terrified and reckless as the horses in a cavalry charge galloping to outstrip the thunder of their hoofs.

1976 R. Selzer Mortal Lessons iv. 180 I felt my unprisoned heart bound from its cage.

1829 New Monthly Mag. 25 213 My books ungilt and unprisoned behind the glittering wires of a library, came at my call.

1875 Mrs. Forrseter Dolores I. iii. 47 Two love-birds cooed and chattered together in their cage by the window, unprisoned birds sang sweetly in the neighbouring trees.

1919 J. A. O'Leary My Polit. Trial & Experiences xv. 179 The hypocrites of the World,..the greater criminals who are outwardly respectable but inwardly corrupt, the unprisoned criminals..but nevertheless wretches before God.

1967 Tulane Drama Rev. 11 97/1 A boisterous demonstration of what happens when the last, unprisoned revolutionary turns loyal and accepts a job with the police.