most sportive
Example Sentences
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The park is very fine and consists of a parcel of those hills and dells which nature formed here when she was in one of her most sportive moods.
From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Holmes, Edric
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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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 Spooner, Shearjashub
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 Thomson, Basil
