Both Uses
mettle
in
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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- Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder.†
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- Brom Bones, however, was the hero of the scene, having come to the gathering on his favorite steed Daredevil, a creature, like himself, full of mettle and mischief, and which no one but himself could manage.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(mettle) courage or strength of character
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)