But you have shown more mettle than I gave you credit for.

But Tottenham seem to have developed more mettle under Mauricio Pochettino.

Replacing the long-since stale Mark Hughes with Paul Lambert has apparently led to a modicum more mettle.

But Mars, showing more mettle than Parry had expected, managed to fashion a ploy of his own.

Their pathway in the sport has given them the edge, they've got more reserves to call on, more mettle.

The few who looked after him at all came to the view that he possessed more mettle than stamina.

Not the great Zabdas himself put more mettle into the troops than did that fiery spirit and her black horse.

They went up the bay in a boat, landed at the Indian camp, and, with more mettle than discretion, marched into it, sword in hand.