Sentence examples for the mettle of from inspiring English sources

"They're testing the mettle of the authorities.

"They don't test the mettle of the man.

The mettle of this soldier was beyond dispute.

They test and define the mettle of his main characters.

The mettle of any index, of course, is performance.

But he said he drew inspiration from the mettle of his ancestors.

I will never again doubt the mettle of my fellow Americans.

The world now knows him, and has taken the mettle of the man.

A sexual assault tests the mettle of their growing solidarity, but the play wears its feminism lightly.

Anger at her exile and her father's mistreatment becomes a ferocious desire to test the mettle of Orlando's love.

The mettle of love must be tried and tested, and tried again, before its sweet felicities can be safely indulged.