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overleap

[oh-ver-leep] / ˌoʊ vərˈlip /
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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

"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.

From Time Magazine Archive

Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.

From Time Magazine Archive

How very easily, seeing one half the truth, we can overleap too much intervening space and falsify the remaining half!

From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford

But when they wish to arrive at the chief good, they overleap everything, and leave us two tasks instead of one—namely, to choose some things and desire others, instead of including both under one head.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge

Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Aldrich's optimism rightly overleaped the battlefronts of controversy.

From Time Magazine Archive

His indignation at the conduct of Barron overleaped all bounds, and he told him bluntly, "Sir, you have disgraced us."

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

With the thought came a still and heavenly peace, while my hope, finding no place on this side, overleaped the darkness of death and dwelt upon the scenes of promised happiness beyond.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

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

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

To them the interview is not a matter of getting their names into print, of overleaping a confrere's practice.

From Time Magazine Archive

My horse took fright, and galloped along the road, overleaping and overturning every thing in his way, in spite of all my endeavors to check his speed.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi

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

He made for it at once, directing his course to a spot which the overleaping surge did not reach.

From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various

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

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

With every ready imagination she leaped full upon the fires of an ambition which accepted no check but fed upon difficulty and overleapt obstacles.

From Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

Mr. Attorney-General Robinson went beyond any former effort of his life in the way of vituperation, and overleapt the bounds of the commonest decency.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent

Regardless of a storm of blows Swift to the sky the Vánar rose, Then lightly like a flying ball High overleapt the city wall, And joyous for deliverance won Regained the side of Raghu's son.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith


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