mettled

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And yet I wish that you had been Afar, beside the sounding main, Or swaying daintily the rein Of mettled courser on the green, So I had passed, and passed unseen.

From Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

Springing from the unconscious pressure of his spurs, his horse, a mettled little beast, collided with Paulo and knocked him flat on his back.

From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman

My spirit resembles nothing else so much as a mettled steed, whose curvettings are restrained by an inexorable rein.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

Since I pledged myself To fight this cause, delay's as irksome to me, As to the mettled boy, contracted to The nymph he burns for, when cold blooded age Procrastinates the marriage ceremony.

From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by Colman, George

The schooner, like a mettled steed whose head is suddenly set free, was already in motion, and with gentle forward swaying leaps rising to the wave and gathering speed under her swelling sails.

From The Light of Scarthey by Castle, Egerton