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
But, as the late Mr. Lecky said in his "Map of Life," and Mr. Mallock has since pointed out in "The Reconstruction of Belief," we are compelled to overleap logic when considering this matter.
From The New Theology by R. J. (Reginald John) Campbell
These pious pioneers, in the freshness and wonderfulness of their new life, overleap this gulf without an effort, realising heaven as thoroughly as earth.
From Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote
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
A body of Normans having given way, the Kentish men in their eagerness overleaped the barricade and gave chase to their flying foes.
From Stories from English History by Hilda T. Skae
The design was at first kept neatly within bordering lines of tape, but later, overleaped them with a flaunting leaf or mutinous flower.
From The Tapestry Book by Mrs. Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee
The frontier imagination had in no wise overleaped itself in naming this abyss.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
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
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
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
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
In those early colonial days the settlers overleapt and left behind them leagues of primeval forest, to all appearance inviolate.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
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
At one step they had overleapt all that separated them, and were friends.
From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton
More than ever since he had overleapt that barrier too.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
