mettlesome

How to use mettlesome in a sentence

• I know no more mettlesome horse to ride on ahead of the King and in the beard of those city clowns.

  The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne Sue

• The horse was mettlesome and high-spirited, and the sight of Perry's motor-cycle sent the animal leaping toward the roadside.

  Motor Matt's Daring, or, True to His Friends | Stanley R. Matthews

• Socks, the most restive and mettlesome of the horses, started and whinnied as burning leaves struck him.

  The Pioneers | Katharine Susannah Prichard

• Bernardino led him to a pavilion where a number of pleasure-seekers were gathered and selected a sleigh and two mettlesome horses.

  The Land of the Changing Sun | William N. Harben

• Quesada selected the most mettlesome and leaped into the deep saddle.

  The Wolf Cub | Patrick Casey