Example Sentences

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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

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)

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

From English literary criticism by Various

This sportfulness did not impose upon me nor the rocks either, for the marks of the Atlantic in a rage were graven on their brows in baldness and in wrinkles.

From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon