EACH [Illustration] Dave Darrin and Dan Dalzell proved their mettle at the U.
There's mettle in you of the right sort," continued the stranger.
The animal has mettleenough for any thing, I should think.
By this day and this light, the fellow has mettleenough in his pelly.
There the mettle of the Crown Prince was tested and he was found to be merely a thing of straw, a weak creature whose mind was under the domination of von Falkenhayn.
Hudsdon, look you, is, in his particular humor, a man of as good mettle as Barnet.
The man of mettle will not relinquish; he will die, but he will not let go.
The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
A man of mettleor spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.
Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him.
Goodsell, my arctic "tenderfeet," as I called them, proving the mettle of which they were made.
This was one of those opportunities which circumstances give a man silently to prove the mettle of which he is made.
Here is where Min showed the mettle that was in her again.
On the other hand, he was famous for his mettleand for his hitting power, so that, even in the face of the advantages of youth and condition, the betting was three to one in his favour.
This put life and mettle into the heels of the bonnet maker, who, turning his back on the supposed danger, set off at a pace which the smith never doubted would speedily bring him to his own house.
Possibly my fine gentleman yonder may have occasion to test his mettle before we ride back again.
Indeed, I know few forms of exertion that so thoroughly test the mettle of men as journeying across the wilderness.
The Mettle of the Pasture "It may be that The Mettle of the Pasture will live and become a part of our literature; it certainly will live far beyond the allotted term of present-day fiction.
Therefore take your places, all ye who would prove the mettle of your horses, and your own mastery of this gallant game.
Come, mount my car with me, that thou mayest see of what mettle are these steeds of mine, unrivalled in flight or in pursuit.
But Athene had not forgotten her favourite, and she contrived that he should recover his whip, and put fresh mettle into his steeds.
Tis more to guide than spur the muse's steed Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed; The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most his mettle when you check his course.
Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder.
Anyway it had seemed a jolly lark at the time--a test of the mettle and mother wit of both of them to "get away with it.
They did not know the mettle that was in this grandnephew of the great Gustavus.
So much of fighting mettle in a little lad must not waste itself upon those whom he may one day rule," and borne by his slaves to the villa he ordered that his litter be made ready at once.
By the foot of a soldier, it cuts my heart to see men of mettle hounded by ill fortune!
They would have barred the street against the first comers, or sought a brawl in the first tavern, but that Ravenshaw bade them save their mettle for adversaries worthy of their schooling.
He had a fine, gallant air; people stood in their doors to look after him, as he went by upon a mettle horse.
He is an honest and a mettle gentleman, and I would have ye bear in mind who says it.
