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
In English literature Dryden is the writer who most recalls him, though rather in his higher than in his more sportive moods.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Fishing Now that our heavy labours in building our hut and securing our supply of food were over, we had leisure to indulge ourselves in lighter and more sportive avocations.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
The words "Winder," "Bender," "Twister," "Topper," and "Stunner," might be borrowed to designate money, which itself should change its present correct appellation for the more sportive and appropriate title of Blunt.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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 Anna Seward
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