Meanings of sportiveness in English

The light from the lamp without flickered on it in gruesome sportiveness.

She took peculiar delight in my sportiveness and certain sweetness in my external deportment.

Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness.

As a rule, the Brother's sportiveness only disquieted him.

Angela took her sister's reckless speech for mere sportiveness.

Still, in their sportiveness and in the sportiveness of Roth's animals, they have a certain charm.

Her lovely face beams forth from the dust-covered and dingy canvas with beauty, sportiveness, and pensive grace.

But there are few of us who would care to see the monumental calm of our fireside sphinx degenerate into senile sportiveness.

But retirement softened him, and the real nature of Lord Cromer, with its elements of geniality and sportiveness, came into full play.

This is a valuable bit of autobiography; it sets forth clearly Chopin's proneness to melancholy, which, however, easily gave way to his sportiveness.

Caliban will persist in the belief that the visible system was created in Setebos's moment of being ill at ease and in cruel sportiveness.

That agreeable humor and sportiveness, which seemed native to him, though by reason of his thousand cares not often seen, is now wholly gone.

Sportiveness is hardly in your line.'

The light from the lamp without flickered on it in gruesome sportiveness.

She took peculiar delight in my sportiveness and certain sweetness in my external deportment.

Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness.