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"Sportsmanship" Quotes from Famous Books

... not know that she feels for me anything stronger than a vagrant sympathy, Dad, for while she is eternally feminine, nevertheless she has a masculine way of looking at many things. She is a good comrade with a bully sense of sportsmanship, and unlike her skunk of an uncle, she fights in the open. Under the circumstances, however, her first loyalty is to him; in fact, she owes none to me. And I dare say he has given her some extremely plausible reason why we should be eliminated; while ...

— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne

... "The sportsmanship and friendly rivalry which the Army and Navy game brings out in both branches of the Service is admirable and unique and reaches all officers on the day of the game wherever in the world they are. Real preparedness is an old axiom at West Point and it has been applied to football. There ...

— Football Days - Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball • William H. Edwards

... ballad, until the roof rang. The new girls, spelling out the words in the song books by the rather pale lamplight, came out strongly in some parts and wobbly in others, producing some tone effects which caused the old girls to double up with merriment, but the new girls showed their good sportsmanship by singing on lustily no matter how many mistakes they made, a fact which caused Dr. Grayson to beam approvingly upon them. In the midst of a particularly hilarious song the bugle suddenly blew for going to bed, and the old girls, still singing, began to drift ...

— The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin • Hildegard G. Frey

... man's sportsmanship and generosity in this last remark won for him the respect of the Ridgleyites who had remained on the scene, and the result of the incident was to make them feel that Campbell had acted with little ...

— The Mark of the Knife • Clayton H. Ernst

... too much like business," sighed Sylvia. "Can't we play for the sake of the sport? I don't think it good sportsmanship ...

— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers

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