Behind Notre Dame in mediæval times was an open space of waste land, the Motte aux Papelards, where the servants of the Cathedral disported themselves.
He never married and when he died, still a youngish man as modern ages go, all sorts of stories were told of him, and the space writers, having a congenial subject, disportedthemselves voluminously.
And when they had disportedand taken solace together, the kinsman of the Soldan asked him concerning the Cid, what manner of man he was.
And he was like a King, retired apart, and trobadors and gleemen and masters disportedbefore him which could do the best, and he took his pleasure.
And having presently consummated the marriage, he long and amorously disported him with her, neither she, nor any other, being ever aware that another than Gisippus lay with her.
Which said, the lady and her now partly reassured lover got them to bed, where for a great while they disported them right gamesomely, laughing together and making merry over the luckless scholar.
I dipped, I dove, I disported myself, I made a thousand brilliant drops leap high and shine with their glittering phosphorescence.
The bath was situated some distance back in this garden, and here I disported myself with such luxurious joy as no one can imagine who has not been a wanderer in the heated tropics away from fresh water.
It was a very dingy quarter, though noble gentlemen and lovely ladies had once occupied the great ghastly mansions, and disported themselves in the gruesome gardens.
The ex-member disported himself before Mrs. Eliott's dinner-party as he had neverdisported himself in Parliament.
When they were dismissed and the broadsword exercise, limited to a much smaller number, succeeded, the boys who had no part in that new drill, either looked on attentively, ordisported themselves in a gymnasium hard by.
How the Pickwickians made and cultivated the Acquaintance of a Couple of nice young Men belonging to one of the liberal Professions; how theydisported themselves on the Ice; and how their Visit came to a Conclusion 31.
So while they sought breakfasts of aphis and early worm, or disported among the branches in the growing sunshine, I attended their movements in rustic wonder.
The six girls disported in the lake like a flock of ducks.
The other girls disported themselves in the deep water to their vast enjoyment.
Even the stout doctor donned his knickerbockers and grey hose, unfurled his Japanese umbrella, and, with a pretty niece on either arm, disported himself like a boy.
Ordering a fire in the largest of the three stuffy little cells which they occupied, they set about being comfortable, for it had turned chilly, and a furious wind disported itself in and out through numberless crevices.
Quite Arcadian was Gaston in this attire; and very effective on the croquet ground, where sundry English families disported themselves on certain afternoons.
This was the simple and childlike way that these two men, each a genius in his own way, disported themselves on a holiday.
Yet the very next season she turned to a typical Clyde Fitch play, "Her Sister," and disported herself in charming frocks and smart drawing-room conversation.
Grasshoppers disported gayly upon its rugged surface, occasionally leaping inadvertently into the surrounding surf and kicking their ungainly legs in the sparkling water.
The scaffold, forgetting its prosy usage, was resplendent in a winding robe of bunting and on its railing where cans of white lead and linseed oil had disported hung lanterns of every color in the rainbow.
You were the bright particular star, or sun, in whose light all the fairest flowers disported themselves.
The walls had been painted in fresco by an eminent Italian artist, and bevies of rosy Cupids, trailing after them garlands of many-hued flowers, disported on a background of a delicate green tint.
While he thus disported himself, a beggar stole his horse and his clothes.
The good man disported himself with other rogues, playing with his three dice, which he kept to remind him to spend his coppers, in order that he might always be poor.
The tea came to an end without any special adventure and afterwards the children disportedthemselves to their hearts' content in the gardens.
There were thousands of them, and in the water other thousands disported themselves, while the sound that went up from all their throats was prodigious and deafening.
He lay on his back, and the eyes darted hither and thither, following the flight of the several flies that disported in the gloomy air above him.
Birds disported on the gleaming lakes, kingfishers were angered to behold themselves mirrored in the depths, thinking they gazed upon rivals, and ruffled the waters with their flapping wings.
Thereafter Vishwamitra led the princes to his hermitage, which was situated in a pleasant grove where deer disported and birds sang sweetly.
It chanced that two fond herons disported on the bank, when suddenly a passing huntsman shot the male bird, which at once fell dead in a pool of blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disported" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
