Mettle sentence example
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- Lana didn't have the mettle to survive the way he knew how.
- He suspected it was because the same mettle lining Dusty's backbone lined hers.
- Determined that in this first battle against a white nation they would show their mettle, the Japanese lavished both time and forethought on the minutest preparations.
- A month of harassing skirmishes ensued, during which the Egyptian troops showed their mettle at Mograka, where 200 of them held the fort against a superior number of dervishes, and in combats at Ambigol, Kosha and Firket.
- Her whimsical and adventuresome spirit puts her so much on her mettle that she makes rather a poor subject for the psychological experimenter.Advertisement
- In spite of his youth he soon found an opportunity of displaying his mettle; for he arrested Hezekiah the arch-brigand, who had overrun the Syrian border, and put him to death.
- The first two days of the strike tested the mettle of both sides.
- An observer of very different mettle, the great lawyer d'Aguesseau, dwells on the "noble singularity, that gave him an almost prophetic air.
- The cause slumbered, till in1742-1743the outbreak of wars with France and Spain gave Prince Charles a chance of showing his mettle.
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- Some show more mettle in the face of death, while others become paralyzed from fear.
- This was when Bob's true mettle began to show.
- However, Connolly believes that the whole Bath Rugby squad have the mettle to turn things around.
- Mr Brennan and Hepworth started the year, testing our intellectual mettle and general knowledge with a House quiz.
- This formation definitely has the defensive mettle to shut teams up.Advertisement
- Among the earliest and most curious forms of amusements in Wales, was that of " trying the mettle " of the young men.
- Prove your ethical mettle, Co-op, clear the shelves of factory farmed ducks immediately!
- The National Youth Choir of Scotland - celebrating its tenth birthday this year - revealed its own mettle in the Bernstein.
- I don't mean apathy really, they just haven't grasped the mettle yet, never mind.
- mettle against contemporary champions with puzzles that were worked out under tournament conditions by three top solvers.Advertisement
- The papal infantry, the gendarmes, and the light horse had already vanished from the field in disorder; but the Spanish regulars were of different mettle, and it was only after a long struggle that the landsknechts and the French bands broke into the entrenchments.
- THE SPIRIT OF THE man celebrates the mettle of a man whose footballing achievements and eccentricity endeared him to a nation.
- But Jade was like most immortals: he'd only ever loved other men, whereas Kris valued mettle over sex.
- Her pain was raw, yet there was mettle in her backbone if she'd gone to Sean's funeral, fully knowing her own father killed the Guardian.
- Then there are a few single black diamonds to test your mettle - just short little blasts of action - nothing too outrageous.Advertisement
- In too many cases its censors appear to have been lacking the mettle to deal robustly with the film industry's nastier output.
- Here Barabas shows greater mettle than his enemy, who is prepared to run to Sicily to save his life.