mettled

Every boy may now slide down the steep sides of snow-covered hills sitting com­fortably in an upright position, legs and feet all aboard, guiding his vehicle by reins, as if he were driving a mettled steed.

Those lines stung Fritz as the whip stings a mettled horse.

Thud! thud! came on the heavy roan, Rap! rap! the mettled gray; But my chestnut mare was of blood so rare, That she showed them all the way.

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.

"A chain of gold ye sall not lack, Nor braid to bind your hair; Nor mettled hound, nor managed hawk, Nor palfrey fresh and fair; And you, the foremost o' them a', Shall ride our forest queen"— But aye she loot the tears down fa' For Jock of Hazeldean.