"unballasted" road, can be left to the reader's imagination!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference

The body loomed beside us like the rolling hull of an unballasted ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

It was a rickety concern, was unballasted, and looked as if, loosely thrown together, it had never filled its original mission and had been practically abandoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference

Timid and irresolute Catharine, who desired to steer clear of the Scylla of Spanish intervention quite as much as of the Charybdis of Huguenot supremacy, trembled for the security of her unballasted bark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

They cuddled up under a tarpaulin sheet and settled down for the night, when someone gave the wagon a shove and starting down an incline on the unballasted track it proceeded merrily on its way to Ynyslas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference

The nightmare is evidently too much for these unballasted minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution - Volume 2] Reference

The ship in some danger of oversetting, being light and unballasted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference

And then, in the lee of the walls, they resumed their arch, wintry motion, light and unballasted now their tails were gone, indifferent.    From Wordnik.com.  [England, My England] Reference

Then, as if the clouds had discharged their aqueous cargo and rode light as unballasted ships, they lifted in aerial fleets and sailed away, white in a blue sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Places] Reference

The rails were spiked to every alternate sleeper, and then the great 80-ton engine moved cautiously forward along the unballasted track, like an elephant trying a doubtful bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan] Reference

A mimic torrent, ice-bound in the quieter pools, drums and gurgles on its descent midway between two railway embankments, the one to which the station and side-tracks belong, old and well-settled, the other new and as yet unballasted.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool for Love] Reference

At every turn we eagerly hoped to meet the hand-car, but it never came, and we jolted on from tie to tie for eleven weary miles, reaching Cowan after midnight, exhausted and sore in every muscle from frequent falls on the rough, unballasted road-bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete] Reference

So the lawmakers, who had been fired to white heat, retired to cool down again; and when Sheridan -- always as deep in difficulties as Micawber -- was offered a thousand pounds for the manuscript of the speech, he remembered Fox's verdict, and refused to risk his unballasted eloquence in print.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans and Others] Reference

'I'd really give a trifle to-night,' observed Mr. Snitchey, who was a good-natured man, 'if I could believe that Mr. Warden was reckoning without his host; but, light-headed, capricious, and unballasted as he is, he knows something of the world and its people (he ought to, for he has bought what he does know, dear enough); and I can't quite think that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battle of Life] Reference

I could believe that Mr. Warden was reckoning without his host; but, light – headed, capricious, and unballasted as he is, he knows something of the world and its people (he ought to, for he has bought what he does know, dear enough); and I can’t quite think that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Life] Reference

Metaphysics; so that they, having but newly left those grammatic flats and shallows where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction, and now on the sudden transported under another climate to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of Learning, mocked and deluded ail the while with ragged notions and babblements, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge; till poverty or youthful years call them importunately their several ways, and hasten them, with the sway of friends, either to an ambitious and mercenary or ignorantly zealous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference

He had the pure lyric gift, unweighted or unballasted by any other quality of mind or emotion; and a song, for him, was music first, and then whatever you please afterwards, so long as it suggested, never told, some delicate sentiment, a sigh or a caress; finding words, at times, as perfect as the words of a poem headed, "O Mors! quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons] Reference

And for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of universities, not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that instead of beginning with arts most easy -- and those be such as are most obvious to the sense -- they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics, so that they having but newly left those grammatic flats and shallows where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction, and now on the sudden transported under another climate, to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning, mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge; till poverty or youthful years call them importunately their several ways, and hasten them, with the sway o.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I] Reference

And, for the usual method of teaching Arts, I deem it to be an old error of Universities, not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that, instead of beginning with Arts most easy (and these be such as are most obvious to the sense), they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of Logic and Metaphysics; so that they, having but newly left those grammatic flats and shallows where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction, and now on the sudden transported under another climate to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of Learning, mocked and deluded ail the while with ragged notions and babblements, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge; till poverty or youthful years call them importunately their several ways, and hasten them, with the sway of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Milton]