more sportive
Example Sentences
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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
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 Strang, Herbert
Think how much more sportive that will be!
From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by Pearse, S. B.
I speak not of their commercial enterprise and its gross equipage, but of ice-fishing in its more sportive and desultory form, as it is pursued by country boys and the incorrigible village idler.
From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Van Dyke, Henry
