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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "mettlesome" in a sentence

    mettlesome example sentences

    mettlesome


    1. mettlesome horse never stumbleth but when he is reined


    2. that a "mettlesome horse" needed sometimes to be "reined," and heard, too late as well, the stern declaration of the Commons of England that


    3. mettlesome, he seemed to feel lively and began pawing--for as to


    4. Not but what he could feel with mettlesome youth which, caring nought for the mows of dotards or the gruntlings of the severe, is ever (as the chaste fancy of the Holy Writer expresses it) for eating of the tree forbid it yet not so far forth as to pretermit humanity upon any condition soever towards a gentlewoman when she was about her lawful occasions


    5. And there passed before his mind a whole series of these mettlesome, vigorous, self- confident men, who always and everywhere drew his inquisitive attention in spite of himself


    6. A judge of horses and a sportsman, he had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun- one could outgallop him


    7. And what's more, the fair sex is everything for them, these butterflies and mettlesome cocks! Grand gentlemen with little wings like the ancient cupids, lady-killing Petchorins! It's all very well for you, Stepan Trofimovitch, a confirmed bachelor, to talk like that, stick up for his excellency and call me a slanderer


    8. A judge of horses and a sportsman, he had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donéts horse, dun-colored, with light mane and tail, and when he rode it no one could outgallop him


    9. Plainly, since he would not do it, there was still one more mettlesome spirit upon the Crofton road to be reckoned with that morning


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    Synonyms for "mettlesome"

    game gamey gamy gritty mettlesome spirited spunky

    "mettlesome" definitions

    having a proud and unbroken spirit


    willing to face danger