mettlesome
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The weather does its best to massacre his New Yorkers, tormenting them with frigid winters and suffocating summers; their response to the vital challenge is to show off the mettlesome resilience of the human animal.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2013
Ms. Hyltin in particular showed a newly mettlesome edge.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2011
That left Andsnes' athletic, mettlesome and exciting performance of the Brahms to lift the concert out of the ordinary.
From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 18, 2011
The movement's unacknowledged leader, if such a mettlesome mood can be said to have one, is surely Sean Brock, the brilliant young chef of McCrady's Restaurant in Charleston, S.C.
From Time ● Oct. 27, 2010
There's a mettlesome colt," said Campbell, laughing and speaking to the officers around him, "that bird shows fight before his spurs are grown.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
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