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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"We have spoken too much about nationalist art, forgetting that though the roots may lie in nationality and personality, the results, independent of school and nation, should overleap boundaries and enter the universal heart."
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
Now, only by carrying up ordinary facts to this higher, ideal sphere was it possible to overleap the limits of time and space, and give greater unity to the picture, and make it a masterpiece.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
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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I could hear a strange rush upon the mountain, and along the glen, as if the Solway had overleaped all bounds, and was careering some thousand feet abreast over Criffel and Queenberry.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
This necessary period of preparation, of slow and irksome preparation, and gradual progression, cannot be avoided or overleaped by the most heroic exertions of man.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel
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
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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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
Clap following clap Acclaimed Convention's overleaping As Betsey gained her mother's lap And gave the prize into her keeping.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 by Various
Having it in their power, they would rob even their nearest friends, thus overleaping that common law of "honour among thieves."
From Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. by Jonathan Harrington Green
But what are obstacles for but to be overleapt?
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
—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
The anthropomorphic conceptions of Deity, which were prevalent, easily overleapt the interval between the human and Divine.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
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