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
She no longer sought the gloomy privacy of the cabin at the approach of night, but joined the dance of maidens, herself the most sportive of them all.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 by James Athearn Jones
I have once more begun to compose with fresh vigour, and the Italian symphony makes rapid progress; it will be the most sportive piece I have yet composed, especially the last movement.
From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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 A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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