most sportive
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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
It is imagined by the sailors that they are the most sportive just before a storm.
From Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
The town is regular and beautiful, and the houses are built in a style of architecture, which has given loose to the most sportive fancy.
From Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 by Thomson, Basil
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
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
