Given to merry frolicking.
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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