most sportive

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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

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 Jones, James Athearn

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

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

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)