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Meanings of mettlesome horse in English

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Usage of mettlesome horse in English
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The wave of pain was as the lash to a mettlesome horse.
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
2
What a mettlesome horse it was, and how handsome!
A Hero of Our Time
3
The stable-boy stood aside; the mettlesome horse gave a plunge and started off at a three-minute gait.
An Echo Of Antietam / 1898
4
She tossed her head back, as the governess uttered her decision, with the impatience of a mettlesome horse.
The Governess
5
The officer thus directly addressed, a handsome, stalwart man of middle age, reined in his mettlesome horse and waited.
Bob Hampton of Placer
6
It was going at a furious rate, the scarred man driving, and lashing his mettlesome horse at the same time.
The Rover Boys at School; Or, The Cadets of Putnam Hall
7
From the way she settled herself and took the few restive prances of the mettlesome horse Gale judged that she could ride.
Desert Gold
8
Billy was standing in the carriage slashing the mettlesome horses with the whip.
A Girl of the Limberlost
9
He had Hurt riding over rough terrain on mettlesome horses.
The Guardian
10
Then his mettlesome horses claimed his attention for awhile.
The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware
11
Did you hear the neighing of those mettlesome horses?
The Sisters — Volume 3
12
Here Athenian youths, in a great variety of dress and undress, dash forward on small, mettlesome horses.
A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
13
Bernardino led him to a pavilion where a number of pleasure-seekers were gathered and selected a sleigh and two mettlesome horses.
The Land of the Changing Sun
14
"Or at least, a less mettlesome horse."
The Secret Eleanor
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