1
Nature must have been in a sportive mood when she evolved the durian.
2
Fred shook it as he wished, though he was far from feeling in a sportive mood.
3
The spires of rock range about 3300 feet high, jumbled together by nature in a sportive mood.
4
Apart from her future husband, Monica was in a sportive mood, with occasional fits of exhilaration which seemed rather unnatural.
5
When the disciples saw the cup in the hands of the hilarious governor, and heard his playful words, they were not in a sportive mood.
6
In English literature Dryden is the writer who most recalls him, though rather in his higher than in his more sportive moods.
7
There is something primal, stupendous, in his grotesque characters which reminds us of the uncouth monsters that nature created in her sportive moods.