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Meanings of sportive in English
Usage of sportive in English
1
The red coals passed away and the sportive flames ceased to dance.
2
The coals glowed deep red, and the sportive flames danced before him.
3
The Fates have always been sportive so far as I was concerned.
4
I am not in a sportive humour now: where is the money?
5
His fancy was brilliant and sportive, and his imagination varied and fantastic.
6
Ideally, of course, weeds should never reach this state of sportive rankness.
7
It manufactures a range of children's clothing in sportive and day-to-day styles.
8
Gideon Fish after gorging himself with jelly-cake, was inclined to be sportive.
9
Many poems, serious and sportive, appeared, of which one only has lived.
10
The gay frolic of her sportive flight set them flashing like diamonds.
11
He shook his head in sportive refusal; she still appeared anxious, but acquiesced.
12
The day came when Mrs. Todd risked her life in our sportive company.
13
Nature must have been in a sportive mood when she evolved the durian.
14
The child-nature in her is so sunny, sportive, so bent on harmless mischief.
15
A certain girl, excelling in her charms unrivalled, dallies with the sportive Krishna
16
It was now not a sportive combat, but a war to the death.
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