Adjective : a sportive puppy. ,a sportive show of affection. From Dictionary.com.
Abbey of Thélème, -- a kind of sportive Brook Farm set far away in a world unrealized. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Erewhile, in sportive circles round. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes and Observations, Reflections and Critical Remarks] Reference
How sportive is the sway of that Sea-Queen. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference
She moved, and the graces play'd sportive around her. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
But the division of this gift was no sportive matter. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The air like soft twin pigeons too sportive to alight. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
And he rode on some animals, and pursued others in sportive mood. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Planetree in sportive Tipperary, as I believe I've told you before. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
Dancers, when they can be got; but it is always a sportive dance with. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
"Rayther forward and sportive young party," thinks I, Sandown-Parky in style. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
With some sportive malice there was evidently a spice of truth in his remarks. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
A few days later he enlarged further on this sportive simile in a letter to his. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
Pacific slope, but they are not salar, and not sportive in the rivers to the fly. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
How shrunken with the sorrow of their wretched lives, and yet how sportive they seem!. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Lafontaine, with a sportive charm about the verse which will preserve it from becoming obsolete. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
Some seemed engaged in conversation, others in sportive games, and others in various employments. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Visitors] Reference
A light-hearted, sportive girl, with an incontinent overflow of spirits, is condemned as a hoiden. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
A master of the pathetic, his muse sometimes assumed a sportive gaiety, when the laugh is irresistible. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
From the most sportive openness, a word threw it into the most indignant storm, or the most incurable despair. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
Strange fishes glared at him, and seemed to mock his misery by their quick, darting movements and sportive gambols. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean] Reference
She was fairest of all the daughters of the air, beautiful as the sun, mild as the moon, and sportive as the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
This is a sportive display of pleasant wit, polished learning, and deep admiration of the great landscape painters. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
He treated lady and maids with the same free familiarity and sportive roughness as if in one of his favoured haunts. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
The sounds were sportive and jocund; they rippled like laughter; they were capricious as the merriment of a coquette. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
There are two other kinds of letters which give me great pleasure: the familiar and sportive, and the grave and serious. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
This elevation of sportive drawing is mainly to be put to the credit of manly John Leech, -- "the very Dickens of the pencil.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
"Come," said he one day, in a sportive mood, "let us go a-courting to her who is so handsome, perhaps she may fancy one of us.". From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
Beauclerk, Langton, and Lady Sydney Beauclerk, and made a sportive suggestion that he and Beauclerk and Langton should take it. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
Start not forward in life with the idea of becoming mere seekers of pleasure, -- sportive butterflies searching for gaudy flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
This name conveys these beings to the land of spirits, and makes them resemble the oriental Genii, and Shakespeare's sportive elves. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Trowbridge skillfully managed his horse, which was high-spirited enough to still be sportive in spite of the long ride of the morning. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
As we pass through Vendsyssel homely farmsteads and windmills add a charm to the landscape, while tethered kine and sportive goats complete. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
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