"Sporty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to meet Yale in the annual football game between the freshman teams. The streets were filled with pretty girls, and more pretty girls, with "sporty" chaps in mackinaws, in raglans—with all sorts of hats atop of their heads, and some without hats ...
— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes
... to th' grapes just now, Geoff. I don't mean those giddy-lookin' pumps with flossy bows onto 'em, but somethin' sporty, good an' yellow that'll flash an' let folks know you're comin'. ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... he thought it was that way; and it was that way. But everyone in the parquet thought that the kiss had been intended for him. Folk of quality were annoyed at the insolence of the peasant wench; while more "sporty" persons returned ...
— Walter Pieterse - A Story of Holland • Multatuli
... asked about our old-time friends, those cheery, sporty men; And some was in the poor-house, Tom, and some was in the pen. You know the one you liked the best?—the hang-man laid him low,— Oh, few are left that used to booze some twenty ...
— Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp • Various
... a good-looking young chap. Dresses kind of sporty. He's a great jollier. You have to know him a while to find out that he means business. Well, he came 'round and saw I was feeling pretty tired, so he asked me to knock off for a week and go fishing with him. I did, and it was the ...
— Calumet 'K' • Samuel Merwin
... was the fancy rations, or the sporty crowd around us, or the jiggly music, or a combination of all three; but by the time I've induced Mr. Higgins to tackle a demitasse and light up a seven-inch Havana he mellows enough so that he's almost on the point of makin' a ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford
... sporty, seems to me," said Lon Beardsley. "Maybe you'll give us an introduction to your ...
— The Radio Boys at the Sending Station - Making Good in the Wireless Room • Allen Chapman
... ever since been my envy and despair. It is so knowing, so "sporty." I class it with being able to wear a pink-barred shirt front with a diamond-cluster pin in it; with having my clothes so nobby and stylish that one thread more of modishness would be beyond the human power to endure; with being genuinely fond of horseracing; ...
— Back Home • Eugene Wood
... jolly is the gale, And a joker is the whale, A' flourishin' his tail,— Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... He pushed the veal cutlet from him. He was greatly agitated. "Retire—you? I can see you doing nothing, blamed if I can't. Gettin' sporty, Joe, in your old age, aren't you? You'll be wearing one of these dress-suits next and a flasher in yer chest. Huh!" he snorted, "you'd make a good one on ...
— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim
... will not do at all; for the horse—besides having been placed in a position more aristocratic than ever, through the philanthropies of Henry Ford—is essentially "sporty." You must be a "sport" or you must keep away from him. You must approach him with dash or you must not approach him at all. And when a young lady inquires what kind of horse you like, there is but ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street
... reeking shambles, not a Boche to be seen alive— So I thought; but on rounding a traverse I came on a covey of five; And four of 'em threw up their flippers, but the fifth chap, a sergeant, was game, And though I'd a bomb and revolver he came at me just the same. A sporty thing that, I tell you; I just couldn't blow him to hell, So I swung to the point of his jaw-bone, and down like a ninepin he fell. And then when I'd brought him to reason, he wasn't half bad, that Hun; He bandaged my head and my short-rib as well as the Doc could have done. So back I went with ...
— Rhymes of a Red Cross Man • Robert W. Service |
