most sportive
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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
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 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 Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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)
