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.
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"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.
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The facts would now require much restatement; and moreover, the narrative is too apt to overleap prosaic but necessary facts in order to fasten upon the picturesque passages.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
Young diplomatists and young greyhounds run fast and overleap the game.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
But Aldrich's optimism rightly overleaped the battlefronts of controversy.
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Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism.
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But it may be doubted whether this vaulting ambition has not overleaped itself, and whether a puppet-show does not gain rather than lose by restricting its efforts within narrower limits.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
With every fresh acquisition of national territory, the zeal of the contending power overleaped the congressional boundary, and demanded more for its own sectional policy.
From The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 by Joseph K. (Joseph Ketchum) Edgerton
The mercurial spirits of the French soldier, which overleaped every obstacle in his path, were often found to evaporate in the tedium of protracted operations, where there was neither incident nor excitement.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
To them the interview is not a matter of getting their names into print, of overleaping a confrere's practice.
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Many of his admirers could not understand why the former Communist sympathizer turned to Gaullism, overleaping all the moderate positions in between.
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The dread of overleaping the restraints of law, which, perchance, has prolonged the conflict, has been most creditable to the genuine democracy we have represented.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
Youth has such a way of charging in and carrying all before it by assault--such a way of overleaping barriers that look unsurmountable to older eyes!
From Jason by Justus Miles Forman
His lighting 'on Niphates' top,' and overleaping the gate of Paradise, may be used as arguments either way.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
Streaks fairy green are traced on backward ways, Through vacant regions lightly overleapt, With pauses, where in soft pathetic haze Are phantoms of the joys that died unwept.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
—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
William overleapt his own low wall and drew nearer to observe, his pulses beating rapidly.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks
As the sun paled to nothing in the yellow murk of dust, a high cloud of sand overleapt the northern peaks and came sifting down the slopes of Shadow Mountain.
From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge
More than ever since he had overleapt that barrier too.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
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