例文・使い方で印象づける「mettle」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... hast thou seen amore valiant knight than I in all the known world; hast thou read inhistory of any who has or had higher mettle in attack... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete」
...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」
...On the contrary, she had put him on his mettle and had set Rewa Gunga to the task of frightening him and had tested him and tried him before tempting him at last...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...But a few good-natured remarks about their laziness put them on their mettle, and we reached Ugunda at 2 P...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...After that rebuff, however, Medhurst seemed put upon his mettle...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...We have an old adage, "If you would grasp a nettle, grasp it as a man of mettle...
Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock 「Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper」
..."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」
...However, the German criticism put him onhis mettle, and he answered that if he hadthought the greatest value of a painting lay inits fiddling little details of finishing, he toowould have painted them...
Dolores Bacon 「Pictures Every Child Should Know」
...—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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