disports

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 2007

Li Faa is in fact "a new woman, a feminist, who rides horseback astride, disports immodestly garbed at Waikiki on surf boards, and at more than one luau has been known to dance the hula ...."

“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.” 2008

The above two sites will keep you up-to-date with all the expenses gate news and gossip as the Editor of That's News disports himself in the Welsh sunshine.

Archive 2009-05-01 Thatsnews 2009

Product placement, while hardly subtle, isn't intrusive, with cognac bottles lurking in the background as Ken -- played by talk-show host Bai Xuxu -- dates and otherwise disports himself, backed by a sophisticated soundtrack.

In China, Brands Come With Plots 2009

The above two sites will keep you up-to-date with all the expenses gate news and gossip as the Editor of That's News disports himself in the Welsh sunshine.

Friday morning update Thatsnews 2009

With a skill that seems admirably new, he takes nine characters and disports them deftly through the forest of memory.

The Forest Of Simon 2008

[3703] A countryman may travel from kingdom to kingdom, province to province, city to city, and glut his eyes with delightful objects, hawk, hunt, and use those ordinary disports, without any notice taken, all which a prince or

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Riding of great horses, running at rings, tilts and tournaments, horse races, wild-goose chases, which are the disports of greater men, and good in themselves, though many gentlemen by that means gallop quite out of their fortunes.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[6598] As in fasting, so in all other superstitious edicts, we crucify one another without a cause, barring ourselves of many good and lawful things, honest disports, pleasures and recreations; for wherefore did God create them but for our use?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The one is, they live a sedentary, solitary life, sibi et musis, free from bodily exercise, and those ordinary disports which other men use: and many times if discontent and idleness concur with it, which is too frequent, they are precipitated into this gulf on a sudden: but the common cause is overmuch study; too much learning (as [1978] Festus told Paul) hath made thee mad; 'tis that other extreme which effects it.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007