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Even Emerson, who boosted Carlyle's American reputation and mailed him his U.S. royalties, irked the grumpy Scot with his perennial good temper and "unsubduable placidity."

From Time Magazine Archive

Whereupon, and instantly, child that I was, I knew anger, the old, red, intolerant wrath, ever unrestrainable and unsubduable.

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by London, Jack

Some unsubduable word was on Pierre's lip, but a sudden voice from out the veil bade him be silent.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Plants spring up from the earth, and grow, and blossom at your feet, and you look on with delight, and an unsubduable wonder, and in a heedless moment you ask what is life?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

Whether it is suspicion eats in me, Mistrust and fret and doubt—of whom I say not, Or whether desire, and unsubduable, To see Amaury sceptred—I care not.

From Yolanda of Cyprus by Rice, Cale Young