...The path now becomes an absolute torrent, with mud-thickened water,which cascades round one’s ankles in a sportive way, and roundone’s knees in the hollows in the path... 
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...While on the wing they pursue each other playfully in theair, and also attack and chase passing birds of other kinds, apparentlyin a sportive spirit...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...It was impossible for anything to be more sportive, yetmore inoffensive, than this dog...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...Colonel Le Couteur was forced to reject some of his new sub-varieties, which he suspected had been produced from a cross, as incorrigibly sportive...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
... Mirabilis jalapa is eminently sportive, sometimes bearing on the same root pure red, yellow, and white flowers, and others striped with various combinations of these three colours...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...This sportive visitor of his was averitable godsend...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...This dogafterwards became a fine hunting hound, beautiful in shape, andadmirable for his sportive attributes...
Honoré Bourguignon 「On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment」
...This is the pretty little tawny-coloured butterfly that mixes with the sportive group of "Blues," Meadow Browns, &c...
W. S. Coleman 「British Butterfiles」
...The butterfly is seen in July and August, flitting about in sportive groups round oak trees, and occasionally descending within reach of the net...
W. S. Coleman 「British Butterfiles」
...And so I tried hard andoften to tempt that sportive fish again; butafter the careless, easy casting which resultedin the rise, I could not by any means throwsatisfactorily over the tail of the pool...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...The young are as sportive aspups, but they never wander far from home...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
...It appears that the otter, in its native haunts, is of a playful and sportive humor...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...It is imagined by the sailors that they are the most sportive just before a storm...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...His sportive nature showed itself inthe nicknames which, in parody of the American fondness of titles, hegave to his horses and dogs, as, 'The Right Honourable Mr Mouse,' or'Colonel Roy...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
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