Mettie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Mettie brought over Mrs. Ward's first telegram received that morning from Dover, and said it was too funny to think of Kate being Mrs. Ward.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
In the later MS. this couplet reads: I’ll gage my war courser, the steady and tried, Thou never canst lure the fair Mettie, my bride.
From A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow by Wise, Thomas James
At one and the same moment, Lance exclaimed, 'Jack and Mettie!
From The Pillars of the House, V1 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Margaret hugged the baby closer to her, and Mettie, who had pattered over to see us with her cousin Eliza, remarked that children and their upbringing were doubtless among the great risks of matrimony.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
After death," said Mettie, "she might still be his good angel.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
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