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High-mettled

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High´-met`tled
a.1.Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed.
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A MULE, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: "My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit.
Fables by Aesop View in context
`If a high-mettled creature like this,' said he, `can't be broken by fair means, she will never be good for anything.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
He was a fine, haughty-looking savage, fancifully decorated, and mounted on a high-mettled steed, with gaudy trappings and equipments.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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