overleap
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“But there are more significant hurdles,” she says: hurdles modern medicine hasn’t found a way to consistently overleap quite yet.
From Time ● Nov. 30, 2016
Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.
From Time Magazine Archive
"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wondered if she meant to emancipate "ladies" merely, or if her principles could possibly overleap her birthright of caste?
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Indeed, it is not extravagant to say that the future of the country opens before us, as we see what skill and will can do to overleap obstacles, and make nature subservient to human designs.
From Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883 by William C. Kingsley
But Aldrich's optimism rightly overleaped the battlefronts of controversy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism.
From Time Magazine Archive
The enthusiasm of the vast concourse of excitable Parisians overleaped all bounds.
From Josephine Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
He made for the boundary wall, overleaped it, and then by legitimate pathways came before the entrance door.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
But as the General sought to retire from the scene, the enthusiasm of the crowds overleaped all bounds of propriety.
From The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 by Z. F. (Zachariah Frederick) Smith
To them the interview is not a matter of getting their names into print, of overleaping a confrere's practice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of his admirers could not understand why the former Communist sympathizer turned to Gaullism, overleaping all the moderate positions in between.
From Time Magazine Archive
The boatswain forward labors desperately to return an answering signal; but the spray, the slanted deck, the overleaping waves, are too much for him.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various
From all the townships lying on the banks of the Yukon, from Sitka and from the Canadian borderland, came endless processions—good men, bad men, women and children—all with the gold-lust overleaping any other considerations.
From Colorado Jim by George Goodchild
In these, the example of overleaping the law is of greater evil than a strict adherence to its imperfect provisions.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
—Begirt th' Almighty throne Beseeching or besieging— This tempted our attempt— At one slight bound high overleapt all bound.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
Therefore the High Commissioner overleapt the law, and by an ordinance banished these ringleaders to Bermuda during Her Majesty's pleasure.
From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan
She could not separate him from his genius; and his genius had long ago overleapt the social gulf.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
But what are obstacles for but to be overleapt?
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
Modern improvement has gone overhead on its high- level viaduct; and the extended city has cleanly overleapt, and left unaltered, what was once the summer retreat of its comfortable citizens.
From Edinburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson
