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In long winter nights it was hard to tell who enjoyed sportfulness the better, the children who romped the floor, or the parents who, with lighted countenance, looked at them.

From Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. by Fagg, John Gerardus

If, by any possibility, this general conceit be so, then to Pierre the times of sportfulness were as pregnant with the hours of earnestness; and in sport he learnt the terms of woe.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

So as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.

From English literary criticism by Various

We see in every-day life," says Śaṅkara, "that certain doings of princes, who have no desires left unfulfilled, have no reference to any extraneous purpose but proceed from mere sportfulness.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Among a family generally sad-hued and shrinking so conspicuous an example is quite prodigal and invites one to ponder upon the sportfulness of Nature.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)