Occasionally, while the young family are Disporting themselves near their home, if peril approach, the parents utter a quick, peculiar cry, commanding the young ones to hurry to earth; knowing that, in case of pursuit, they have neither strength nor speed to secure their escape.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
For the truth is that these architectural backgrounds and settings remained, so long as his fancy had any free field for Disporting itself, an integral part of his conception.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
If he had he would have kept still and passed me fresh water and rags and new tubes and whatever I wanted-and I wanted something every minute-instead of Disporting himself in an entirely idiotic and disastrous way.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith