Sample Sentences for
mettle
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    I gave you the opportunity to prove your mettle.†  (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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    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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    Of mettle.†  (source)
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    Mettlesome.†  (source)
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    It's time to test your 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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    The army in butternut were now seasoned fighters, their generals had proven their mettle, and everyone knew that when the campaign reopened in the spring, the Yankees would be crushed for good and all.†  (source)
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    Your horses perhaps are mettlesome.†  (source)
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    The St. George's Hill men, however, were better led or of a better 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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