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Synonyms for mettlesome
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : met-l-suh m |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛt l səm |
Définition of mettlesome
Origin :- 1660s, from mettle + -some (1).
- adj brave
- Similarly, she indulged a mettlesome fancy for referring to her hostess as "dear Abigail."
- Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance
- The horse was mettlesome enough to require all her attention.
- Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
- You study its moods and its ways as those of a mettlesome horse.
- Extract from : « The Book of the National Parks » by Robert Sterling Yard
- Quesada selected the most mettlesome and leaped into the deep saddle.
- Extract from : « The Wolf Cub » by Patrick Casey
- Her coachman had all he could do to control her mettlesome span of Spanish mares.
- Extract from : « The Unwilling Vestal » by Edward Lucas White
- I knew her for a mettlesome filly the first time I ever clapped eyes on her.
- Extract from : « The White Blackbird » by Hudson Douglas
- It was one of the most mettlesome and shapely mounts I had ever had the pleasure to view.
- Extract from : « A Volunteer with Pike » by Robert Ames Bennet
- A good face--unsophisticated, but intelligent, mettlesome and honest.
- Extract from : « The Grandissimes » by George Washington Cable
- He was riding a sweat-covered, mettlesome black with a rolling eye.
- Extract from : « The Killer » by Stewart Edward White
- She looked in perfect condition--sleek, mettlesome, strong, and beautiful.
- Extract from : « Tom Tufton's Travels » by Evelyn Everett-Green
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