most sportive

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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

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

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

It imparts a certain wholesome earnestness to his most sportive moods, making them like the honest and whole-hearted play of childhood, than which human life has nothing that proceeds more in earnest.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman