It is regrettable to record that this popular belief has no more to base itself on than the sportsmanlike reticence of the British officer in refusing to broadcast the real facts.
He was still nursing a black eye from this latter contest--in which his sportsmanlike conduct no less than his cleverness had won the admiration of every one present--when I asked him if he had been satisfied with the decision.
Mr. Sidgwick, after making deductions on all sides of the most sportsmanlike character, still holds that the coincidences are more numerous by far than the Calculus of Probabilities admits.
The sorcerer, in a very sportsmanlike way, asked him to go in himself and try what he could make of it.
This reminds him that we have not much time to waste in idle talk, as the greater heats will drive the gazelles from the plains to the mountain retreats, and lose us the opportunity of enjoying the most sportsmanlike amusement in Syria.
The most sportsmanlike mode of hunting the Gazelle is to use the falcon alone; but for this sport a bird must possess exceptional strength, swiftness, and intelligence.
He likes men for the sportsmanlike and adventurous things they can do, and he likes to read records of things sportsmanlike and adventurous, but men as men, unless they are eccentric to grotesqueness, do not arrest his attention.
That can hardly be, or ought not to be; for clearly it would be more sportsmanlike to pride themselves upon the rare qualities of a few highly-trained animals.
Let all that you secure be done according to rule, and in a sportsmanlike manner.
For in George was all that contempt of the of the married middle-class--peculiar to the wild and sportsmanlike spirits in its ranks.
The wittiest and most sportsmanlike of the Forsytes had passed the day reading a novel in the paternal mansion at Princes' Gardens.
He'd have preferred a more sportsmanlike type of warfare.
It might have seemed sportsmanlike and certainly sufficient to give the Horus only two antagonists at a time, which would have been calculated to provide odds of six hundred to one against it.
I can remember father to this day explaining that no matter how effective this method of attack was it was not considered sportsmanlike to kick.
Frey never let him hear the last of it, asking him if he considered it a sportsmanlike proceeding to take a man of that age, and saying that a man who would do such a thing would shoot quail on the ground and catch a trout with a worm.
Of course the pleasure of playing a fish in a workmanlike manner, as in open water, would be lost, to say nothing of denying the fish a chance for its life by depriving it of a fair field and no favor--the only sportsmanlike way.
Then the khaki-clad, sportsmanlikemissionary strode in, and after the preliminary greetings Diana asked with charming piquancy, "O!
Fly fishing is not only the most scientific and sportsmanlike method of fishing but it is also the most difficult to acquire skill in.
They reveal Lincoln in the full flower of sportsmanlike honesty.
When the birds have become so wild that they will not lie to the dogs at all, the best and most sportsmanlike way is to walk them up; but to do this with any success requires a man to be in excellent training.
At first Code merely ascribed these recorded sayings of Nat Burns to youthful disappointment and a sportsmanlike determination to do better next time.
Still the apparently more successful suitor for Gwendoline's hand had a sportsmanlike instinct.
Perhaps he was asking himself now if it might not be moresportsmanlike not to denounce Bob, then and there, but to give him, at least, a chance to explain?
Then Fowle, who is not sportsmanlike but very cunning, said there was a way.
It was a detective-like thing but not a sportsmanlike thing to do, and Trelawny, when he came to hear of it, challenged Peters.
I shall throw myself on his sportsmanlike feeling.
Gooral may occasionally be driven, but far the pleasantest and most sportsmanlike way of hunting them is to walk slowly along the top of a ridge, carefully examining every ravine and patch of likely ground.
For some space our opponents have been dead to honor an' sportsmanlike conduct.
I think it would be sportsmanlike of you to accept the handicap.
Nor can he deny that they combine sobriety with pluck, and businesslike behavior with good feeling; that they are as full of honor as of resource, and as sportsmanlike as sagacious.
So far assportsmanlike fairness is concerned, that method was not one whit more elevated than killing game by poison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sportsmanlike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clean; fair; sporting
