| 1. | I am not in a sportive humour no. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Give salutation to my sportive bloo. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | In empty air their sportive javelins throw. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | But I-that am not shap'd for sportive tricks. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | The sportive wanton, pleased with some new play. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | That drive thee from the sportive court, where tho. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Thou art no Pearl of mine" said the mother half playfully for it was often the case that a sportive impulse came over her in the midst of her deepest suffering. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 8. | The sportive sunlight--feebly sportive, at best, in the predominant pensiveness of the day and scene--withdrew itself as they came nigh, and left the spots where it had danced the drearier, because they had hoped to find them bright. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 9. | And in that midst their sportive pennons wav'd Thousands of angels in resplendence each Distinct, and quaint adornment. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |