a mettled fellow

I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.

Quick! She's already on the way out!

A train load of 350 tons of iso-octanol, a plasticiser alcohol, leaving the I.C.I. works at Billingham en route to Middlesbrough, for shipment to Australia, … the liquid is pumped from the tank wagons direct into a deep tank on board the vessel.