| 单词 | sportiveness |
| 例句 | I cannot express the manly indignation of the worthies we left in there at such sportiveness. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z No charm of graceful sportiveness, of artful compliment, or of kindly seeming, was wanting to the attraction of her manners. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z His manner was kind, simple, and dignified, with plenty of sportiveness flashing out from time to time. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Krishna and N�r�yan are essentially one; only Krishna showed more of sportiveness and charm. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z She continually surprised me by the strength and subtlety of her understanding, in which I looked for only sportiveness and delicacy. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z How vividly memory recalls the time when, in childish sportiveness and affection, I arranged this little tress upon the venerable forehead of my grandmother! Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z The burden of Mona's long years of weary sorrow had been so suddenly lifted away that she could not restrain her thoughts from childish sportiveness. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z With this virile appearance, Cornelia united the sportiveness, and the sweet and coy charms of a maid. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z They approached the plain full of sportiveness, some coursing butterflies, others culling flowers, or picking up the shining little pebbles that attracted their notice. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z In the mean time the Leviathan and its giant baby were lashing the sea and sending up small mountains of spray, the calf occasionally leaping quite out of the water in its redundant sportiveness. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands But its chief charm to Evert Winthrop lay in the fact that it had in it so much more of the sportiveness of the child than of the consciousness of the woman. East Angels "Did you want me, grandpapa?" said the young girl, entering, and addressing him by the title she had one day given him in sportiveness, and which he liked to be called by. One Of Them A compatriot of my own here came up, and with the sportiveness allowable to intimacy, said, "What's the row?" Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) What glorious visions might one conjure up out of the sportiveness of an untrammelled will! Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day The merry Puck, who is so prominent an actor in “A Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” is the mischief-loving sprite, the jester of the fairy court, whose characteristics are roguery and sportiveness. Folk-lore of Shakespeare I called as in old days at the Duchrae, when I used to carry her on my back, and she in sportiveness used to run and hide from me. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway The gladsomeness and sportiveness of the boy's nature were things which he could not understand, and he feared that they were of the Evil One. Home Life of Great Authors Her quick glance could fathom no deceit, no inconceivable sportiveness in Gaga. Coquette And then, sated with destruction, smile and glisten beneath the morning sunbeams with all the sportiveness of child-like innocence. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 The grateful plant repays the care bestowed upon it by bursting into a sportiveness unsuspected, and indeed impossible, amidst the alarms and frays incessant in the wilderness. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer With all her gaiety and sportiveness, she had a heart filled with all the tenderest sensibilities of a woman. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 As with Fielding, as with Thackeray, the light current tone of sportiveness or irony heightens the rare solemnity of didactic moral earnestness. Horace It began in sportiveness, but before long became deeply serious and interesting. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 As a Magistrate, his wise, calm, humane administration of the law proved that the fulfilment of the gravest duties is not incompatible with the sportiveness of literary genius. The History of "Punch" She took peculiar delight in my sportiveness and certain sweetness in my external deportment. The Autobiography of Madame Guyon All the little waves jumped from their slow-swinging cradles to play with it, and, as they played, became big waves, with all the sportiveness of children and all the power of giants. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage That agreeable humor and sportiveness, which seemed native to him, though by reason of his thousand cares not often seen, is now wholly gone. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century It seems to have been an expression of pure sportiveness and mirth-making, and was therefore performed without sacrifice or religious ceremony. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Caliban will persist in the belief that the visible system was created in Setebos's moment of being ill at ease and in cruel sportiveness. A Hero and Some Other Folks Grave and earnest, he had never in his life known sportiveness, and his distress and horror at the profanity and blasphemy that rang in his ears made him doubly sad and stern. Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field But retirement softened him, and the real nature of Lord Cromer, with its elements of geniality and sportiveness, came into full play. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters But there are few of us who would care to see the monumental calm of our fireside sphinx degenerate into senile sportiveness. Americans and Others I was struck with his appearance, his quickness of conception, and that mixture of sportiveness and depth, which I had found characteristic of the higher orders of French society. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 His sportiveness and disinclination to religious seriousness gave his mother some anxiety, and she would look at him, says his biographer, with a half mournful admiration, and exclaim, "O Washington! if you were only good!" Washington Irving Lord Eldon, though all gravity on the bench, and seldom indulging in any sportiveness in parliament, was a humorist at table, and fond of humorous recollections. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 The boat, a tiny speck on the surface of chaos, darted and checked and swerved lightly at the imperious bidding of unguessed forces, reaching up from the depths to pluck at it in elfish sportiveness. Success A Novel "I echo my husband's sentiments as a good wife should," she answered with something of the sportiveness of other days. Elsie's children Although she was always cheerful and not a little gay about the Ball homestead, she suddenly achieved a spirit of sportiveness which surprised the captain of the Seamew. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod Just such another poem—of the sportiveness of love, only this time in memory, not in present pleasure, is to be found in A Lovers' Quarrel, and the quarrel is the dark element in it. The Poetry Of Robert Browning As a rule, the Brother's sportiveness only disquieted him. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Wild as a deer, she dared him to run a race with her, and danced along the paths by his side full of mirth and sportiveness. The Poor Gentleman Her firm and healthy pulse beats in sympathy with the sportiveness in which the proper decorum of her station may not permit her to bear an active part. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Neptune was Circumstance; Pluto, the Abyss, the Undeveloped; Pan, the glow and sportiveness and music of Nature; Ceres, the productive power of Nature; Proserpine, the Phenomenon. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Her lovely face beams forth from the dust-covered and dingy canvas with beauty, sportiveness, and pensive grace. Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty Aged sportiveness is not seductive, and we do not become slaves at the tap of a fan, when the hand that holds it is palsied and withered. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 It smiled and wept, but knew not why; but succeeding days added strength and vigor to his frame, and he came forth in all the sportiveness and beauty of infant loveliness. Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland In its weaker portions Schleiermacher's philosophy is marked by lack of grasp, pettiness, and sportiveness. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time His Letters are written in an easy, agreeable style, with constant sportiveness and endless felicity of expression. Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century "When shall the wedding be?" said Mrs. Jaynes, with a smile of affected sportiveness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 It has been often said, that one can always measure the refinement of any person by watching his language and deportment in his moments of sportiveness. The Elements of Character The old fellow seemed ten years younger, and wore an air of sportiveness, almost of raillery, as he caught his host's eye. The Westcotes You will see the tame horse in the paddock gallop about for his pleasure, and the wild horse on the prairie will start and run for miles in mere sportiveness. In the Riding-School; Chats with Esmeralda Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness. Lady into Fox He could sometimes have recourse to the sportiveness of irony, but he did not often seek any other aid than was to be derived from an arranged and extensive knowledge of his subject. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 He was gay even to sportiveness all the evening, conversing with the officers around him. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 In play-time they desired no better companion, for she was a child herself in gaiety of heart and lissom sportiveness. The Whirlpool He who never relaxes into sportiveness is a wearisome companion, but beware of him who jests at everything! Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society A heavy thing, A country fireside in a winter’s night, To one bred in the town,—where winter’s said, For sun of gaiety and sportiveness, To beggar shining summer. The Hunchback He believed in laughter as thoroughly wholesome; he had the firmest conviction that fun is healthy, and sportiveness the truest sign of sanity. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters Still, in their sportiveness and in the sportiveness of Roth's animals, they have a certain charm. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth His sportiveness and disinclination to religious seriousness gave his mother some anxiety, and she would look at him, says his biographer, with a half-mournful admiration, and exclaim, "O Washington! if you were only good!" Washington Irving At certain times the varnish of cold politeness and icy sportiveness with which he ordinarily conceals his passions, scales off suddenly and falls into dust, and his soul appears in its nakedness. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels It may be the head of your enemy, your friend, or a stranger, according as competition, jealousy, or simple sportiveness has been your incentive to labor. Options Yet I must deem it an admirable trait in this man's character, if at such a moment, when death confronted him, neither his wits forsook him, nor could the childlike sportiveness vanish from his soul. Hellenica The hurl- headlong sportiveness and that achieving its end by means of curved mallets. The Mirror of Kong Ho The deserted appearance of the city and the absence of the come-in motion at every door; The sportiveness of maidens, and even those of maturer age, ethereally clad, upon the shore. The Mirror of Kong Ho |
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