more sportive

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And is there a consciousness more sportive and splendid than Tom Stoppard’s?

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2018

Almost at its door is a stream stocked with rainbow trout �a fish far more sportive than Adirondack pike.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reports of experiments, as full and as prompt as the telegraphic reports of cricket in our more sportive atmosphere, will go about the world.

From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

With more harmonious tones, more sportive fire Beneath her hand arise the potent strains.

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna

And here we find that the fancy is not more sportive in dreams, than are the poets in their descriptions of her nocturnal vagaries.

From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An