Sample Sentences for
mettle
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    I gave you the opportunity to prove your mettle.†  (source)
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    I want more mettle, if you please, lady.†  (source)
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    I've seen far too many people awash in a genuine desire to change only to lose their mettle when they realized just how difficult change actually is.†  (source)
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    Whether it was because they were impressed by her mettle in the face of danger or because they recalibrated their sense of who was threat and who was threatened or because they now simply had something to talk about, several people on her shifts began chatting with her a lot more after that.†  (source)
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    Mettlesome.†  (source)
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    Of mettle.†  (source)
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    He seemed afraid to talk, he only whipped up smartly his three lean, but mettlesome, bay horses.†  (source)
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    The Trials are a test of my mettle.†  (source)
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    A judge of horses and a sportsman, he had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun-colored, with light mane and tail, and when he rode it no one could outgallop him.†  (source)
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    It's time to test your mettle!'†  (source)
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    For example, I cannot credit that the mettlesome poet Byron would have contentedly sat down with Bartleby to examine a law document of, say five hundred pages, closely written in a crimpy hand.†  (source)
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    Then, after months of being diplomatic and appearing weak in Soviet eyes, the president shows his true mettle.†  (source)
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    The instant Haley touched the saddle, the mettlesome creature bounded from the earth with a sudden spring, that threw his master sprawling, some feet off, on the soft, dry turf.†  (source)
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