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Paris (section High and Late Middle Ages to Louis XIV)became popular in the French court. The French royal family and courtiers "disported themselves in masques, ballets, allegorical dances, recitals, and opera...245 KB (24,171 words) - 16:32, 24 June 2024
Spanish Armada (section Return to Spain)not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of battle, to live or die amongst you all – to lay down for my God, and for...95 KB (12,652 words) - 16:49, 18 June 2024
Zeus, With clouds of mist, And like the boy who lops The thistles' heads, Disport with oaks and mountain-peaks; Yet thou must leave My earth still standing;...7 KB (1,002 words) - 01:03, 18 June 2024
while he was disporting himself disgracefully between the two women as though they were wallowing in some revolting pigsty. They said to the king: "Our...74 KB (9,853 words) - 16:36, 7 June 2024
Aloadae (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)wife of Aloeus, by Poseidon, whom she induced to make her pregnant by going to the seashore and disporting herself in the surf or scooping seawater into...13 KB (1,214 words) - 23:46, 6 April 2024
showing us, crime—more than anything, even politics—allows men of all ages to disport themselves across the full range of human ineptitude. Boy, do they screw...48 KB (3,534 words) - 20:42, 9 May 2024
Sumer is icumen in (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)in a way tolerable to Victorian sensibilities. Most recent editors have recognized what every farm boy knows—that quadrupeds disport themselves in the...28 KB (2,914 words) - 07:11, 30 March 2024
mute nor ful of bable, sometime taunting without displeasure not without disport. The king would say that he had .iii. concubines, which in three diuers...35 KB (4,388 words) - 17:53, 9 June 2024
Virginia (June 11, 1948). "TOUCH OF CAPE COD AT GRAND CENTRAL; Models Disport on Balcony in Beach Togs in Show by Filene and Railroad". The New York...7 KB (703 words) - 05:01, 25 August 2023
tribute to Lingaraja. Chandan Yatra (Sandalwood ceremony) is a 22-day festival celebrated in the temple when servants of the temple disport themselves...28 KB (2,986 words) - 14:09, 20 June 2024
effect on following generations than this. Henceforth similar figures disported themselves in innumerable decorative works, be they painted, formed in...115 KB (13,635 words) - 01:49, 25 June 2024- reviews from critics. John Burgess of The Guardian stated it was most likely to "alienate all but their most ardent fans," saying that "fractured, seemingly...7 KB (492 words) - 18:03, 13 June 2024
Playground (section Response to Mass motorisation)Manchester" ought to have "a hundred acres or so of free greenfield, with trees on it, conquered, for its little children to disport in". Manchester became...44 KB (4,885 words) - 19:19, 10 May 2024- which had been titled "Strange Spectacle in Loch Ness". "The creature disported itself, rolling and plunging for fully a minute, its body resembling that...103 KB (11,514 words) - 22:56, 15 May 2024
- cast was of a "high-caliber" and "disport[ed] themselves admirably" in the Los Angeles Times, with special mention to Andy Garcia and Forest Whitaker,...19 KB (2,278 words) - 16:16, 12 June 2024
journalists and congresswomen to dispel "the gaudy stories of the gay and careless way in which the young ladies in uniform … disport themselves…." The allegations...61 KB (6,959 words) - 21:46, 17 June 2024
life to a tennis-court: If in my weak conceit, (for selfe disport), The world I sample to a Tennis-court, Where fate and fortune daily meet to play,...74 KB (10,233 words) - 13:06, 28 May 2024
"great pleasure and disport...sometime with his great boisterlie Bretons wrastling with my lordes yemen of Cornwall, who had much to do to gete the upper hande...169 KB (20,098 words) - 10:17, 25 June 2024
in ball dress or masquerade costumes disporting themselves amorously in parkland settings. When Watteau applied to join the French academy in 1717, there...7 KB (722 words) - 17:31, 15 May 2024
this interval the sea is as smooth as glass, and not a zephyr is found to disport even among the topmost boughs of the loftiest trees. Autumn The weather...130 KB (11,149 words) - 14:05, 14 June 2024
- Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; fare”)). The English word is a doublet of deport and sport. The noun is derived from Middle English disport, desport (“activity
- of yesterday; Ah, talk to me of Death that takes away My little sorrows, as they hide and peep, My little joys, as they disport and leap, My little vanities
- but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, — The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, — Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants
- v. obs.). 12 dysporttys Disports, relaxations, recreations, merriment (OED “disport” n., 1, 2, & 3). “The tyme of youthe is to be spent” appears in H in