We know that it was a strange and fascinating life, passed for the most part beneath the public eye, at leisure, without the society of free women, without what we call a home, in constant exercise of body and mind, in the duties of the law-courts and the assembly, in the toils of the camp and the perils of the sea, in the amusements of the wrestling-ground and the theatre, in Sportful study and strenuous play.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
With the fable of the frogs and the boys in mind, I had to decline participation in his Sportful moods, for what would have proved pure frolic to him might have been fraught with disaster to me.
"Tropic Days"
E. J. Banfield
Detached and erratic patches of ripples appear-tiptoe touches of Sportful elves tripping from the isles to the continent, whisking merrily, the faintest flicks of dainty toes making the glad sea to smile.
"My Tropic Isle"
E J Banfield