mettlesome
- s having a proud and unbroken spirit
- s willing to face danger
- Edward of Wales patted the sleek chestnut flanks of his favorite hunter, a fleet and mettlesome mount named.
- The mettlesome Irish nymph of these confessions reveals herself teetering a-tiptoe upon the springboard of chastity in a day when only a very slight push was required to set a .
- Ken-tucky-bred horses have been fined down to a mettlesome nervousness highly impressive in the ring but unsuited, so their critics claim, to hardier exercise.