He believed in laughter as thoroughly wholesome; he had the firmest conviction that fun is healthy, and sportiveness the truest sign of sanity.
"The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1"
Charles Farrar Browne
She spoke with ease, laughed with the heart as well as the lips, met his eyes with freedom and without embarrassment, countered his sallies with sportiveness-in a word, carried herself towards him as though she were an equal; precisely as Lady Betty and the Honourable Fanny carried themselves.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman
History has said-no, not history-but invalid supposition has said that sportiveness, malice, love of notoriety, and the like, inherent in the minds and hearts of those young girls and women, were the chief incentives to and producers of the woeful, the murderous accusations and statements which came forth from their youthful lips.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam