A party of boys disported themselves noisily on the range of stone posts that form a bodyguard round the ancient lamp-surmounted pump, but otherwise the place was wrapped in dignified repose suited to its age and station.
In the distant water a large number of animals are disporting themselves.
It happened that my brother and myself were disporting ourselves in certain fields near the good town of Canterbury.
On Sunday afternoons all the bourgeois world of our ville disports itself upon the jetty.
The latter took little notice, and slowly wended his way through the extensive park, in whose magnificent old trees monkeys were disporting themselves.
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Ethane oceans, and maybe, just maybe, an analogue of a whale disporting itself and bellowing into the methane rain?
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In that time, apparently, "smalls" maydisportthemselves on the market with grouse and other sporting animals.
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If anything will keep young people from coming into conflict with the law, it is giving them opportunities to play, anddisportthemselves.
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Buildings which the parents of those who this afternoon have been disporting themselves in the sunshine enjoyed are no longer there for them to see.
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It disports itself on the terraces of football grounds and in the streets of our towns and cities.
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Are there any beaches there to dot with orange tents in which todisportthemselves, as we have found, as a remedy for unemployment?
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We do not usually associate him with frolics, but he certainly disported himself with oratorical eloquence.
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If so, is he closing an area where people maydisportthemselves.
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It depended entirely on the way a particular woman disported herself with regard to the audience.
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Consequently, the debate lacks that atmosphere in which so many of our colleagues like todisportthemselves.
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I am not prepared to compete in this field of rhetoric in which so many previous speakers have disported themselves to the enjoyment of their audience.
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In this particular cesspool, thousands of bathersdisportthemselves in the summer months, and many of the shrimps and prawns we eat live and feed in the area.
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I hope that he will return to the economists of his youth and get the milk of the gospel instead of disporting himself in the uncertain forests of politics.
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