1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XX. xciii. 382. A thunderbolt he was … that … of his comming swift, and flight vnstaid, Eternall signes in hardest rockes hath wrought.
1638. Junius, Paint. Ancients, 314. His vast and unstayed understanding.
1820. Praed, Poems (1864), II. 40. Unchecked, unstayed, he hurries on.
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., I. 730. To strike electric influence through a race, Unstayed by city-wall and barbican.
