That's what I got for bein' sporty.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
No, no; only a ripping good sporty game all the way through.
"The Voice in the Fog"
Harold MacGrath
Nothing by day or by night could be more exquisite than the little harbor, a perfect horseshoe in shape, and now, at our first sight of it, set round with electric lights, like diamonds in the scarf-pin of some sporty Titan, or perhaps of Hercules Monoecus himself, who is said to have founded Monaco.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells