The lyrics which we have treated are in the majority of cases of a sportive character, those appealing most directly to us and, we think, to the hearts of people of these times.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
Once, indeed, yielding to an uncontrollable impulse of exasperation, Gerard had given one of these sportive young savages a sound thrashing.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Just then the still air was stirred by the sportive whippoorwill's call with which the young engineer of that particular train always announced with the locomotive's whistle his approach to Chester, and later there was a sound of escaping steam and the slow clanging of a bell as the train drew up in the shed.
"Dixie Hart"
Will N. Harben