most sportive

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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

Some of his Argumentative Tricks were really peculiar to Yes-and-No Dialectic in its most sportive forms: but his leading types, both Inductive and Deductive, are permanent, and his plan as a whole has historical interest.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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 bishop had a large ape, of extraordinary cunning, the most sportive and mischievous creature in the world.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub

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