How To Use Disport In A Sentence
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This policeman has an insatiable desire for disport, so he rides this small bike in no time when he sees it.
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He stands on two legs, beats a big drum with a stick held in his trunk and disports himself with the grave grace one always admires in these imposing creatures.
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There is the trichina spiralis, which really exists, although the German pork-butchers denounce the story as a "pig lie;" the ordinary intestinal worm, which disports itself, eel-like, in the Alimentary Canal; and the tape worm, of two varieties, one of which performs its circumlocutory antics in the human stomach, and the other in the government Bureaux at
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870
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Not far from Malbaie, he saw the so-called "porpoises," or white whales, (beluga, French, _marsouin_) that still disport themselves in great numbers in these waters, come puffing to the surface and writhe their whole length into view like miniature sea-serpents.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
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Recently two whales were disporting themselves in the balmy early spring waters of Sydney Harbour.
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Twisting he-men disport around the thick trunk of a phallic tree.
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The antelope-eyed couples disporting themselves with such abandon represent both a physical and a religious ideal.
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We disported ourselves to our heart's content.
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The Judies were disporting themselves at one of their weird games.
The White Feather
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Youth, in a bright-haired, black-winged-butterfly swarm, streams out of every dark doorway, from the austere shade of study, to disport itself, two by two, or in larger eddying groups, upon the worn gravel, even venturously flits across the sacred green of the turf.
The Invader A Novel
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So that disporting myself right modestly continues even into this interview.
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The Advent fast ended on Christmas Eve; then there were twelve days of feasting, banqueting, pageantry, disguising, and convivial merrymaking, all presided over by the Lord of Misrule, or Master of Merry Disports.
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They disported themselves bumptiously, like they were aces.
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She is currently disporting herself in Ireland, you see.
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The children are disporting themselves in the swimming pool.
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For most part in these kind of disports 'tis not art or skill, but subtlety, cony-catching, knavery, chance and fortune carries all away: 'tis ambulatoria pecunia,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He liked to think he was consorting with all sorts of men — so he beheld coalheavers in their tap-rooms; boxers in their inn-parlours; honest citizens disporting in the suburbs or on the river; and he would have liked to hob and nob with celebrated pickpockets, or drink a pot of ale with a company of burglars and cracksmen, had chance afforded him an opportunity of making the acquaintance of this class of society.
The History of Pendennis
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We disported ourselves to our heart's content.
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He forgot that she had made life a burden to him, and when she disported herself around him he responded solemnly, striving to be playful and becoming no more than ridiculous.
The Call of Kind
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They disported themselves bumptiously, like they were aces.
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And so upon a day Sir Tristram yede into the forest for to disport him, and then it happened that there he fell sleep; and there came a man that Sir Tristram aforehand had slain his brother, and when this man had found him he shot him through the shoulder with an arrow, and Sir Tristram leapt up and killed that man.
Best way to deal with an attack by an archer
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It was Ladies' Hour, and there were well-dressed women around me, some English and some Indian - overseeing their children as they disported in the pool.
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For self-help they started the Benevolent Association, and for distraction, played cards or disported in the gin mills, clubs, and theaters that then lined Ridge Road.
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On occasion, when a school of blackfish disported by, each one of them a whale of respectable size, Nishikanta would be beside himself in the ecstasy of inflicting pain.
CHAPTER XII
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Charlotte played along with the pack, relishing the sales potential of celebrity, disporting herself on a beach lounger for the benefit of long lenses.
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And so upon a day Sir Tristram yede into the forest for to disport him, and then it happened that there he fell sleep; and there came
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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A beautiful terzetto describes with inimitable grace the gently sloping hills covered with their verdure, the leaping of the fountain into the light, and the flights of birds, and a bass solo in sonorous manner takes up the swimming fish, closing with "the upheaval of Leviathan from the deep," who disports himself among the double-basses.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
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Yet for disport we fawn and flatter both.
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But she does a magnificent job of observing him as he disports himself in various clearings.
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She came to the stream and found it running between blue-flowering mouse-ear and rushes, into a pool which deepened from a sandy shallow: so anon her borrowed raiment was lying on the grassy lip of the water, and she was swimming and disporting her in the pool, with her hair loose and wavering over her white back like some tress of the water-weed.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Fantasy is a genre that tends to make me twitchy, though in expert hands it can conjure up a bogus credibility: Surely we don't object to the gods disporting themselves in Greek drama.
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First he leaves his affianced wife to disport herself alone in Cairo while he is amusing himself in the Sudan.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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When they continued out past the steel diving-stage where a few of the hardiest divers disported, he muttered vexedly under his breath "damned malahinis!
THE KANAKA SURF
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Mrs. Phil and her husband were almost thoughtful; Tod disported himself unregarded and unadmired, comparatively speaking; Mollie seemed half frightened by the aspect affairs were wearing; and Aimee's wise, round face had an older look.
Vagabondia 1884
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Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers.
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The stories featured mainly attractive young people with no perceptible acting talent or experience disporting themselves in the buff.
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But now she had done her chaffer, and was looking about her as if to note the folk for her disport; but when she came across a child, whether it were borne in arms or led by its kinswomen, or were going alone, as were some, she seemed more heedful of it, and eyed it more closely than aught else.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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However, she let down her hair about her body by way of shift, and throwing herself into the basin disported herself and dived like a duck and swam up and down, and took water in her mouth, and spurted it all over the Porter, and washed her limbs, and between her breasts, and inside her thighs and all around her navel.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He stands on two legs, beats a big drum with a stick held in his trunk and disports himself with the grave grace one always admires in these imposing creatures.
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In that pleasant humour they all posted to Rome; and intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to make trial of that which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus finds his wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her maids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or in several disports.
The Rape of Lucrece
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The children are disporting themselves in the swimming pool.
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In the room to the left of the door a "bonneva," or half-grown pig of the size called a "shote," in the State of Georgia, was disporting himself by looking on at a girl spinning wool, a "boy" doing nothing, and two dirty youngsters wallowing on the floor.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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The clerical staff will not disport themselves in raiment of bright colors, nor will they wear hose unless in good repair. colors?
Workplaces have been worse! | My[confined]Space
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The clerical staff will not disport themselves in raiment of bright colors, nor will they wear hose unless in good repair.
Workplaces have been worse! | My[confined]Space
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Li Faa, from the Chinese angle, was a new woman, a feminist, who rode horseback astride, disported immodestly garbed at Waikiki on the surf-boards, and at more than one luau (feast) had been known to dance the hula with the worst and in excess of the worst, to the scandalous delight of all.
THE TEARS OF AH KIM
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Which said, the lady and her now partly reassured lover got them to bed, where for a great while they disported them right gamesomely, laughing together and making merry over the luckless scholar.
The Decameron, Volume II
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A realistic life-sized mouse may be seen in one place, just as if it had run out to inspect the work; and the numbers of little tipsy "putti" who disport themselves in all attitudes, in perilous positions on narrow ledges, are full of merry humour.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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What we had planned for the summer was a little light gardening followed by mimosas on the patio while the younger kids disported themselves on the swing set and the 13-year-old moped in the hammock.
The Case Against Summer
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When the intelligence becomes powerless to command and to say what and when and how the affections shall disport themselves, then man becomes a slave to his heart and is led like an ass by the nose hither and thither; and when nature thus runs unrestrained and wild, it makes for the mudholes of lust wherein to wallow and besot itself.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers.
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The fancy can no more soar and disport in skyey regions, the beloved object ceases at once to be celestial, and remains plodding on earth, entirely unromantic and substantial.
The Virginians
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While father and daughter disport themselves, textile unrest grows.
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We wouldn't have been surprised to see them the next day disporting themselves on the golf course or the Tennis court with equal verve and dash.
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There were thousands of them, and in the water other thousands disported themselves, while the sound that went up from all their throats was prodigious and deafening.
Chapter 19
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He lay on his back, and the eyes darted hither and thither, following the flight of the several flies that disported in the gloomy air above him.
Chapter 20
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Here, apparently, royal ladies disported themselves under the watchful gaze of women sentries.
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Mary and her husband Dave first sampled the joys of disporting themselves in the scud on the beaches of Ibiza and decided to attempt to replicate the liberating experience in Scotland.
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The writing in this collection resides and disports itself very intently within the field of language-presence and language-process.
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INSPECTION: SGS or equivalent at seller cost at port of loading and buyer cost at disport.
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The light is from flashing video screens everywhere, forcing you to watch said insanity disporting itself live.
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On occasion, when a school of blackfish disported by, each one of them a whale of respectable size, Nishikanta would be beside himself in the ecstasy of inflicting pain.
CHAPTER XII
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They didn't actually attempt to ride these giants, and there were no surfers disporting themselves on top of them either.
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We wouldn't have been surprised to see them the next day disporting themselves on the golf course or the Tennis court with equal verve and dash.
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Regardless what disports you should be interested in, one might assemble stories re your favorite sport on the online world.
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I've always been impressed by the fact that my readers generally disport themselves in a courteous and civilized fashion.
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First he leaves his affianced wife to disport herself alone in Cairo while he is amusing himself in the Sudan.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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Often and often I have mused quietly amid scenes where gamblers of various sorts were disporting themselves -- in village inns where solemn yokels played shove-halfpenny with statesmanlike gravity; in sunny Italian streets where lazy loungers played their queer guessing game with beans; in noisy racing-clubs where the tape clicks all day long; on crowded steamboats when
Side Lights
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The children are disporting themselves in the swimming pool.
