| The chorus is youthful and mettlesome, impressively precise yet never mechanical. |
| I knew her for a mettlesome filly the first time I ever clapped eyes on her. |
| A shy, passive, recessive figure has been transformed into an active, mettlesome, gender-challenging presence, a poet in control of her art and environment, and fully conscious of the mechanics of personal myth. |
| He was riding a sweat-covered, mettlesome black with a rolling eye. |
| Her coachman had all he could do to control her mettlesome span of Spanish mares. |
| It was one of the most mettlesome and shapely mounts I had ever had the pleasure to view. |
