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
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
Well, well, we must not overleap the quiet current of our story.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
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
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
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
The older sister knew that beneath that surface reserve was a passionate nature, brooking no restraint when once it overleaped the bounds of her Puritan self-control.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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
A good motto for the book is, for Chesterton, that attributed to Cardinal Newman: 'Evil always fails by overleaping its aim and good by falling short of it.'
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Patrick Braybrooke
In fact, we are told, the poet has, in the Acharnians, shown his true greatness by overleaping all restraints of time and place and giving his fancy free rein.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
He had thrown down his spade, and was out of the potato-field, overleaping a wall, before his mother had time to question or remonstrate.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks
The houses at length overleapt the wall of Philip Augustus, and merrily scattered themselves at random over the plain, like prisoners who had made their escape.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
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
The ore-bins were intact, for the fly-wheel had overleapt them, but tables and tanks and concentrating jigs were utterly smashed and ruined.
From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge
The misgivings about her husband which long practice and continual effort had taught her how to keep at bay, suddenly overleapt their artificial barriers and swarmed upon her.
From Leonora by Arnold Bennett
But what are obstacles for but to be overleapt?
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
