例文・使い方で印象づける「mettle」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...Gallardo waved his javelin,uttering shouts that were more like bellows, just as he did in the ringwhen he incited the beasts to show their mettle... 
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
..."You'll not manage much taming with this fellow,Professor, will ye?" asked the boss, craftily aiming at putting the lion-tameron his mettle...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
...All men know that certainhorse trainers give race-horses a small portion of meat, especially whenthe races are coming on, in order to increase their mettle and strength...
Honoré Bourguignon 「On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment」
...On inquiry he was informed that during hisabsence the female, who had been anxious to try the mettle of the pony,had mounted it, and that the animal had set off at full speed...
Percy J. Billinghurst 「A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals」
...Any breeder of horses will tell you thatneither the climate of Newmarket, nor careful training, nor anyquantity of oats, nor anything else, will put racing mettle intocart-horse stock...
Robert Marett 「Anthropology」
...All had arms of a uniform pattern, and horses swift and full of mettle, of which the worst was worth a hundred livres...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...—The ground was sandy, and several gullies descending tothe river occasioned difficulties which tried the mettle of our horses, andconvinced me that we now carried too much weight for them...
Thomas Mitchell 「Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia」
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