I was young then, and a young man's imagination, like a high-Mettled steed, soon runs away with him.
"Tales of the Caliph"
H. N. Crellin
"Nay, dear Gaston, but you ought, for obedience is the first duty of the knight, and honor of the gentleman," answered the girl, in a soft, reproachful tone, which seemed to touch the lad, as the voice of a master tames a high-Mettled horse.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
"'Twas a fine hart," replied Shakespeare, "and no dull and muddy-Mettled rascal!"
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs