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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
sport .
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Examples
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And, O tiger among men, thou repeatedly sportest with the gods including, Brahma and
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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O tiger among men, thou repeatedly sportest with the gods including,
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Salutations to thee that wearest a garland of gold, to thee that sportest on hills and mountains [63], to thee that art adorned by all who are enemies of the gods, to thee that art possessed of fierce speed and energy.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Surely, (for is it not so?) thou art deeply anxious and thoughtful how thou mayest give account of them, thou who dost not so much as care to remember them, but sportest with what is no sporting matter.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Thou sportest with my wit in love, so that indeed meseems As if
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879
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Quoth his mother to him: "O my son, thou sportest with thy reason.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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"Nay, young man," said the Rabbi, "if thus thou sportest with the grey hairs of age, thy days are numbered.
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"Nay, young man," said the Rabbi, "if thus thou sportest with the grey hairs of age, thy days are numbered.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number Various
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FN#72] Then said the Lady Zubaydah to the Caliph, "O Commander of the Faithful, thou sportest and jestest with me, and this slave hoodwinketh me, the better to please thee; but I will send and see which of them be dead."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Quoth his mother to him, "O my son, thou sportest with thy reason: thou wilt go to the mad-house [FN#49] and become a gazing-stock.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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