unconfinable

The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station – houses.

Bleak House 2007

His poor, mistreated will that he had been holding up to the scorn of himself and his friends, stood before him innocent, and his judgment walked off to prison with the unconfinable imp, imagination, dancing in mocking glee beside him.

This Side of Paradise 2003

Indeed, it is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power, can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions, to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of the dungeon.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

His poor, mistreated will that he had been holding up to the scorn of himself and his friends, stood before him innocent, and his judgment walked off to prison with the unconfinable imp, imagination, dancing in mocking glee beside him.

Book 1, Chapter 4. Narcissus Off Duty. 1920

His poor, mistreated will that he had been holding up to the scorn of himself and his friends, stood before him innocent, and his judgment walked off to prison with the unconfinable imp, imagination, dancing in mocking glee beside him.

This Side of Paradise 1918

It was increasingly evident that he had not been absorbed, obliterated, in marriage; an institution which, from the beginning, had tried -- like religion -- to hold within its narrow walls the unconfinable instincts of creation.

Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

—Why, thou unconfinable baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep the terms of mine honour precise.

Act II. Scene II. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

This right is as unconfinable as it is inalienable.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station-houses.

Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station-houses.

Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841