Mettie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“My courser so proud, and my neck bone so white I’ll gage that I lure the fair Mettie this night.”
From Proud Signild and Other Ballads by Borrow, George Henry
But probably the Pirate will never know that it was not his own idea that he should fall in love with Mettie.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
It will be all right now you are coming home, Mettie!
From The Pillars of the House, V1 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
"Oh! but nothing is settled yet," simpered Mettie.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
"But"—he glanced about him again—"give them to me, please, when Tant Mettie isn't looking."
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant
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