most sportive
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The bishop had a large ape, of extraordinary cunning, the most sportive and mischievous creature in the world.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner
It is imagined by the sailors that they are the most sportive just before a storm.
From Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
From the most sportive openness, a word threw it into the most indignant storm, or the most incurable despair.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various
The town is regular and beautiful, and the houses are built in a style of architecture, which has given loose to the most sportive fancy.
From Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 by Basil Thomson
But with the Pygmies he was the most sportive and humorous, and merry-hearted, and sweet-tempered old Giant that ever washed his face in a wet cloud.
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
