mettled

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The schooner, like a mettled steed whose head is suddenly set free, was already in motion, and with gentle forward swaying leaps rising to the wave and gathering speed under her swelling sails.

From The Light of Scarthey by Castle, Egerton

Mr. Hartwell said in the House of Commons that the colonists took Louisburg from the French single-handed, without any European assistance—"as mettled an enterprise as any in our history," he calls it.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

And yet I wish that you had been Afar, beside the sounding main, Or swaying daintily the rein Of mettled courser on the green, So I had passed, and passed unseen.

From Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

The mettled Kurt added much farther speaking to persuade his master that he ought not to resist this royal passion, but to forget all other ties, and free himself from his captivity.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

Since I pledged myself To fight this cause, delay's as irksome to me, As to the mettled boy, contracted to The nymph he burns for, when cold blooded age Procrastinates the marriage ceremony.

From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by Colman, George