mettled
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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I loved to look on him, chafing and fretting like his own mettled charger, he was so handsome!
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James
High mettled or fretful horses, it is often necessary to soothe, and timid ones to encourage.
From The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation by Jenkins, T. A.
Back, lurid in air, for another regale, The Fire-Fiend who's down but not settled, With fresh bellowsed flame will return without fail, And help to oppose him he'll thankfully hail Our Water-King manly and mettled.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 20, 1887. by Various
The lords of Carthage by the door bide till the tarrying queen Shall leave her chamber: there, with gold and purple well beseen, The mettled courser stands, and champs the bit that bids him bide.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
“The uniform was ordered to be ‘a blue frock with plain yellow mettled buttons, scarlet velvet cape, and double-breasted flannel waistcoat.
From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon)
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