1 Her liveliest activity now was organizing outdoor sports in the motor-paralyzed town.
2 I've been thinking about getting up an annual Community Day, when the whole town would forget feuds and go out and have sports and a picnic and a dance.
3 The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 4 She was nearly as strong as I, and uncannily clever at all boys' sports.
5 To all these sports and pursuits, those of the enemy who watched the besieged, and the besieged themselves, were, however, merely the idle though sympathizing spectators.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 6 The boys had resumed their sports in the clearing, and were enacting a mimic chase to the post among themselves.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 7 But the children had abandoned their sports for their beds of skins, and the quiet of night was already beginning to prevail over the turbulence and excitement of so busy and important an evening.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 8 The boys deserted their sports, and walking fearlessly among their fathers, looked up in curious admiration, as they heard the brief exclamations of wonder they so freely expressed the temerity of their hated foe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 9 I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes--there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.
10 She seemed rather an airy sprite, which, after playing its fantastic sports for a little while upon the cottage floor, would flit away with a mocking smile.
11 He soon became known to every boy in the school; and though he never took an active part in any game but kite-flying, was as deeply interested in all our sports as anyone among us.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP 12 Low sports, such as prize-fighting or Spanish bull-fights, are a sign of barbarity.
13 I admit that manly sports do not.
14 Then Euryalus reviled him outright and said, "I gather, then, that you are unskilled in any of the many sports that men generally delight in."
15 It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers.