sportfulness
- a word derived from sport.
Example Sentences
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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
So as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
From English literary criticism by Various
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)
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
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
