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And is there a consciousness more sportive and splendid than Tom Stoppard’s?

From New York Times Oct. 18, 2018

Reports of experiments, as full and as prompt as the telegraphic reports of cricket in our more sportive atmosphere, will go about the world.

From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The words "Winder," "Bender," "Twister," "Topper," and "Stunner," might be borrowed to designate money, which itself should change its present correct appellation for the more sportive and appropriate title of Blunt.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

It was impossible for anything to be more sportive, yet more inoffensive, than this dog.

From Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse

Think how much more sportive that will be!

From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by S. B. Pearse



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