-- and thought out a little plan of his own."
"What was that? Tell me, please."
"Well, there's no help for it now, I suppose. I've begun the story, and so I must continue. "In about four days' time Azamat rode over to the fortress. As his usual custom was, he went to see Grigori Aleksandrovich, who always used to give him sweetmeats to eat. I was present. The conversation was on the subject of horses, and Pechorin began to sound the praises of Kazbich's Karagyoz. What a mettlesome horse it was, and how handsome!英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
"'My horse! My horse!' he cried, all of a tremble. "As a matter of fact I heard the clattering of hoofs. "'It is probably some Cossack who has ridden up.'
"'No! Urus -- yaman, yaman!'[1] he roared, and rushed headlong away like a wild panther. In two bounds he was in the courtyard; at the gate of the fortress the sentry barred the way with his gun; Kazbich jumped over the gun and dashed off at a run along the road. Dust was whirling in the distance -- Azamat was galloping away on the mettlesome Karagyoz. Kazbich, as he ran, tore his gun out of its cover and fired.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
It is with him as with me. This charming May air has made us both mettlesome and happy. Away, then, my ladies and lords! our horses must be to-day swift as birds. We ride to Epping Forest."
And through the open gateway dashed the cavalcade. The queen in front; at her right, the Princess Elizabeth; at her left, the master of horse, Thomas Seymour, Earl of Sudley. When the train had disappeared, father and daughter stepped back from the window, and looked at each other with strange, dark, and disdainful looks. "Well, Jane?" said Earl Douglas, at length.英文原著 · 《Henry VIII and His Court》
[6] Reading {skhedon gar kai phil oi thum}, or if {. oi thil kai th.} transl. "the more eager and ambitious a horse is, the more mettlesome he will tend to become."英文原著 · 《On Horsemanship》
Dave leaped with tigerish agility, and knocking up the levelled Colt, held Snap as in a vise. George Naab gave Holderness's horse a sharp kick which made the mettlesome beast jump so suddenly that his rider was nearly unseated. Zeke ran to Hare and laid him back against the stone.英文原著 · 《The Heritage of the Desert》
Bernardino led him to a pavilion where a number of pleasure- seekers were gathered and selected a sleigh and two mettlesome horses. She took the reins from the man, and sprang lightly into the graceful cutter. Thorndyke followed her and wrapped the thick robes about her feet. Away they sped like the wind down the smooth road, through a leafless forest. Overhead the glass roof could not be seen, but a lowering gray cloud hung over them and a light snow was falling.英文原著 · 《The Land of the Changing Sun》