"Fettle" Quotes from Famous Books
... sustained rate of more than ten miles an hour. To be sure, he was then trained to the hour and at the top of his form. But even now, although not strictly in training, his outdoor life and clean living had kept him in fine fettle, and he was fit to "run for a man's life." A horse could beat him in a sprint, but there were few mustangs on the ranch that he could not have worn down and beaten in ... — Bert Wilson in the Rockies • J. W. Duffield
... the woods gives a fellow an appetite!" cried Andy, after he had eaten his second sandwich and his third doughnut. "I could eat a whole rabbit or a squirrel myself." And then, feeling in fine fettle, he proceeded to pull himself up on a near-by tree limb and "skin the cat," as it ... — The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island - or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box • Edward Stratemeyer
... But after a week's feeding on impoop, as they called the mealie-meal porridge which was their staple food at the mines, they began to pick up. At the end of a month they would be sleek and in first-rate fettle. ... — Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully
... John tooke Guye's bow in his hand (His arrowes were rawstye[41] by the roote); The sherriffe saw Litle John draw a bow And fettle him to shoote. ... — Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various |