Mettie

Or Met·ty

[met-ee]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Matilda or Martha.

Example Sentences

Mettie always offers to help every one, but so slow is the little woman's way of working that the energetic family of Jamieson are quite aware that probably the business will be weeks in doing; so their answers to Mettie's offers, given in a kindly voice, are always: "My dear, you have got your letters to write, and your practising—we could not do without your singing in the evening, you know."

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"Though, of course," said Mettie, "it is a great risk."

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One felt the want of the Jamiesons sadly during the ensuing discussion, and I almost found myself, in the words of Mettie, making the suggestion that marriage was a great risk.

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She always remembers something important which she has until this moment forgotten, and with apologies to Mettie she flies off to see to it, and I am left with our caller.

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Mettie says she would never, never allow a man to know that she cared for him, and that no nice girl would.

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