high-mettled

But his raw talent is only part of the fascination because this son of Galileo is also vulnerable, high-mettled, at risk of burning through his reserves of energy before reaching halfway.

Frankel could be the best colt ever trained by veteran Henry Cecil 2011

The motherly, but coarse kindness of Dame Glendinning, and the doating fondness of her old domestic, seemed now the only kind feeling of which she formed the object; and she could not but reflect how little these were to be compared with the devoted attachment of a high-souled youth, whom the least glance of her eye could command, as the high-mettled steed is governed by the bridle of the rider.

The Monastery 2008

But I dare say that kind-hearted sovereign would not deem that an old woman did him, much injury if she leaned back in her arm-chair, just in such a twilight as this, and thought of the high-mettled men, whose sense of duty called them to arms against his grandfather; and how, in a cause which they deemed that of their rightful prince and country,

My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

But I dare say that kind-hearted sovereign would not deem that an old woman did him, much injury if she leaned back in her arm-chair, just in such a twilight as this, and thought of the high-mettled men, whose sense of duty called them to arms against his grandfather; and how, in a cause which they deemed that of their rightful prince and country,

My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

Richly appareled chamberlains marched on in front, while the high-mettled warriors forsooth must press where they might see the lovely maid.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

In jousting great store of clothes were torn by good knights, by the high-mettled warriors, after the custom of the land, until the king dismounted by the hall.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

Amelung land, 150 whom the lord of Berne doth lead — high-mettled warriors they.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

More high-mettled warriors never rode in such lordly wise to the land of any king; they had whatever they listed, both of weapons and of weeds.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

Then many a fair maid hied her to the casement and gazed upon the street, where many high-mettled warriors were seen riding into the

The Nibelungenlied 2007

These hard toils later brought the high-mettled warriors pain.

The Nibelungenlied 2007