most sportive
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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 Edric Holmes
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 Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
She no longer sought the gloomy privacy of the cabin at the approach of night, but joined the dance of maidens, herself the most sportive of them all.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 by James Athearn Jones
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
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 William Minto
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