Mettie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Long stood the fair Mettie and listened thereto: “Now shall I or not to that horn-player go?”
From Proud Signild and Other Ballads by Borrow, George Henry
"Though, of course," said Mettie, "it is a great risk."
From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
My dear Mettie," I said, "I should certainly write to him—write often, write affectionately, send him your photograph, work him a housewife for his cabin, carve him a frame for your photograph.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
Her mantle of blue the fair Mettie puts on, And unto the bower of Sir Olaf she’s gone.
From Proud Signild and Other Ballads by Borrow, George Henry
But at any rate, my Mettie, I see there is much worth and weight in his affection, and that you could not manage to snub him as entirely as you wanted to do.
From The Pillars of the House, V1 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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