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
It was impossible for anything to be more sportive, yet more inoffensive, than this dog.
From Anecdotes of Dogs by Jesse, Edward
And here we find that the fancy is not more sportive in dreams, than are the poets in their descriptions of her nocturnal vagaries.
From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An
