mettlesome
mettled

This charming May air has made us both mettlesome and happy.

The driver gave his mettlesome grays the office to start.

A mettlesome fellow like you, and not made up his mind!'

"They are mettlesome beasts, no question as to this."

A fine beast, not above three years old, and mettlesome.'

Their history has made them hardy, stubborn, and mettlesome.

After it came another tall, hulking figure, leading a mettlesome stallion.

But I saw William, so mettlesome a moment earlier, now become meek.

Nothing too mettlesome, because I haven't ridden for more than three years.'

Very mettlesome of you, I'm sure, pawing through a dead man's clothes."

Her color was returning along with her mettlesome mood.

Young, wild, mettlesome creatures of the woods never yet hunted or harmed, may have that look.

Keeping to the edge of the road, where the ground was soft, he gave the mettlesome three-year-old full rein.

The mare was mettlesome and apt to kick if he tried to feed or water her with the other animals.

Also, although "mettlesome" is a word, it means "having a proud and unbroken spirit".

If the officer was a panther and his soldiers watchdogs, these were mettlesome horses.

But if you're a rider who likes a mettlesome horse I'm afraid you'll find ours are fairly quiet.

The subject of race has prompted some of the most mettlesome American art in the 1990's.

There were two fine, mettlesome young horses that had been brought in by a farmer from Tourteron.

Grievance, prejudice, rebelliousness, chased through her mettlesome heart, each feeding upon the other.

A hard and adventurous life, the life of this mettlesome and ardent old man.

"Even with two of us up," said Ivo over his shoulder, smiling, "this creature can be mettlesome when he's fresh out.

The whip cracked, the mettlesome horses blew great clouds of steam into the frosty air, and they were off.

The Indian pony was fiery and mettlesome.

We thus became unendurably headstrong and mettlesome.

He was astride his mare, a highly bred and finely mettled bay, and he reined her down to a walk.

The earliest mention of annual race meetings in Ipswich was 1710 when a Town Purse was run for by "high mettled racers".

Tyrrhenus, and Aconteus, void of fear, By mettled coursers borne in full career, Meet first oppos'd; and, with a mighty shock, Their horses' heads against each other knock.