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the courage to carry on

He even liked the way she argued with him, full of mettle.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil

For all her fighting words she gave no overpowering aid-not yet; father and son must prove their mettle still.
Homer -- The Odyssey
I did not think Master Silence had been a man of this mettle.
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2
Goode smiled benignly, as though this tiny skirmishhad been a way for him to evaluate Cotton's mettle.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
And there the Golden Company had proved its mettle.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
Not only had I reports reaching back years before I ever saw you but also we had shared joy and danger and hardship; I knew your mettle.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
Why, now I see there's mettle in thee; and even from this instant do build on thee a better opinion than ever before.
William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
He looked sulky; grim; his eyes became bluer when he was thus on his mettle; his face flushed a little.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
Right now, Beto would prove his mettle at the plate, not behind it.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
Such is my spirit when I am on my mettle.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
He is an honest and a mettle gentleman, and I would have ye bear in mind who says it.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
I am one that would rather go with sir priest than sir knight: I care not who knows so much of my mettle.
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
Terror, terror, show your mettle, take the scab, throw them in the nettle.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
——And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture—let us swear That you are worth your breeding.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
George Naab gave Holderness's horse a sharp kick which made the mettlesome beast jump so suddenly that his rider was nearly unseated.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
The cook, placed upon her mettle, served a delicious repast—a luscious tenderloin broiled a point.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
Better we leave before whatever else is lurking on the island decides to test our mettle.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
But in prison, Selby showed his mettle.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
They mistook the mettle of their sons.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia

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