At which word he had reined up, wheeled and spurred his mettlesome mount and thereupon vanished with his staff in a cloud of dust, at full gallop.
Their horses' flanks were damp from some pleasant gallop, but their present gait was the soft, mettlesome movement of animals who will even submit to walk if their masters insist.
A good face--unsophisticated, but intelligent, mettlesome and honest.
The mettlesome little doctor felt the odds against him in the exchange of greetings.
Spiritless, and utterly indifferent to what his fate might be, Dick Varley rode along with his head drooping, and keeping his seat almost mechanically, while the mettlesome little steed flew on over wave and hollow.
Firmly seated on an animal that defied all sympathy in these mettlesome feats, Sir Within had ample time to admire the exquisite grace with which she rode.
She possess'd some of her brother's mettlesome temper, and gave him an abrupt and most decided refusal.
In others, the warrigal, to wit, it is placed at the apex of his mettlesome temper.
Curlew was Mr. M'Intyre's favourite horse, and Joe was highly honoured in being allowed to ride thismettlesome but lovely paced steed.
Katherine was one of those mettlesome women who make men's blood tingle, and whose own red blood never runs cold in the direst peril.
Four wives are yours if you pay the gold; But a mettlesome steed is of price untold; The whirlwind itself on the steppe is less fleet; He knows no treachery--no deceit.
Dust was whirling in the distance--Azamat was galloping away on the mettlesome Karagyoz.
Here Mrs. Jo's remarks were cut short by the appearance of Nan tearing round the corner at a break-neck pace, driving a mettlesome team of four boys, and followed by Daisy trundling Bess in a wheelbarrow.
Millions of miles did these energetic women travel, dressed in hats and habits never seen before by mortal eye, perched on the bed, driving the posts like mettlesome steeds, and bouncing up and down till their heads spun.
Then, with cracking whips and straining traces, strong, mettlesome horses prancing in the fulness of their strength and spirit, Griffin's West Point battery comes tearing through the lane.
The mettlesome young bull lowered his horns and charged the obstacle, only to be thrown back with a smarting shoulder.
I know no more mettlesome horse to ride on ahead of the King and in the beard of those city clowns.
But I had good hope that, being furnished with a noble horse, and accompanied with my stout and mettlesome servant, and three tall natives of the country, of proven loyalty, I might compass the journey of thirty miles in security.
The scene is a Roman amphitheater, and the two Presidential candidates, in the guise of charioteers, are guiding their mettlesome steeds in a mad gallop around the arena.
The mettlesome leaders, Russia and Turkey, have already taken the bit between their teeth, while Austria, catching the contagion of their viciousness, is plunging dangerously.
He rode a strong, mettlesome barb, whose glossy bay coat shone like satin in the sunlight.
He is a mettlesome youth, and deserves the praise of the town.
Ah no; this is rest," answered Geraldine, as her light, mettlesome palfrey cantered gently alongside the stalwart Don Carlos.
When I was young your mother and I rode miles across a dim forest, she on her pillion, I guiding a mettlesome beauty.
His casualties were somewhat large, but the fighting was of a desperate kind, and the mettlesome New Zealanders were as usual to the fore.
Quesada selected the most mettlesome and leaped into the deep saddle.
