例文・使い方で印象づける「mettle」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...He had a fine, gallant air; people stood in their doors to look after him, as he went by upon a mettle horse... 
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...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」
...This second deceptionput him on his mettle...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...“They are safe this time,” observed Major Henderson; “but another day we will try their mettle...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...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」
...—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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