Read full poem →GUDE pity me, because I’m little!
For though I am an elf o’ mettle,
An’ can, like ony wabster’s shuttle,
Dictionary Entry
A quality of endurance and courage.
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Common Phrases
. mettleagainst mettle
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Poetry examples for “mettle”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Might aiblins waur’d thee for a brattle;
But sax Scotch miles, thou tried their mettle,
An’ gart them whaizle:
Read full poem →O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South!
O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
O dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was
Read full poem →So shrewdly on the mountain-side
Had the bold burst their mettle tried.