sportive

Such are the tricks which destiny, a sportive imp, plays with human affairs.

He looked round, and with sportive tenderness gazed into his daughters eyes.

The transient, sportive disorder of the little boys was but a harmless ripple on the surface of her thought.

She answered only with a sportive, delighted arch smile, seated herself at the instrument, and dashed off into a brilliant waltz.

Thus you see that your disquiets have had no foundation but in the sportive malice of your talkative neighbour.

The theory was charming in itself, and only a woman like Edith, whose fancy had always been sportive, would have dreamed it.

Soon after they had departed, he, in a sportive humor, ordered his vizier to make out a list of all the fools in his dominions.

Celebrate the bull among the cows, for it is the sportive host of the Maruts; he grew as he tasted the rain.

It appears that the otter, in its native haunts, is of a playful and sportive humor.

These sportive souls indeed managed amongst them to "hit his felt hat and graze his left thumb" with shot.