more sportive
Example Sentences
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And is there a consciousness more sportive and splendid than Tom Stoppard’s?
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2018
Almost at its door is a stream stocked with rainbow trout �a fish far more sportive than Adirondack pike.
From Time Magazine Archive
A light, familiar grace, and mild unpretending pathos are the characteristics of his more sportive or serious writings, whether in poetry or prose.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
In English literature Dryden is the writer who most recalls him, though rather in his higher than in his more sportive moods.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
