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A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,— Hamlet
-- For Hecuba? whilst he (Hamlet), 'a dull and muddy-mettled rascal, '[21] like— Shakspere and Montaigne
I was told, was a sign of good lineage; muddy-mettled rascals lacked it; so that I was much distressed by the smooth, plebeian bluntness, at that time, of my own little snub.— Hawthorne and His Circle
_Maiden-tongued, maiden-widowed, man-entered_ (before noted as obsolete), _many-headed, marble-breasted, marble-constant, marble-hearted, marrow-eating, mean-apparelled, merchant-marring, mercy-lacking, mirth-moving, moving-delicate, mock-water, more-having, mortal-breathing, mortal-living, mortal-staring, motley-minded, mouse-eaten, moss-grown, mouth-filling, mouth-made, muddy-mettled, momentary-swift, maid-pale_.— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
What I saw was Hecuba to me -- gave me the motive and the cue for passion, transformed me from the dull and muddy-mettled little John-a-dreams I had been into a small, blind Fury.— Paul Kelver, a Novel
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