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
"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
I wondered if she meant to emancipate "ladies" merely, or if her principles could possibly overleap her birthright of caste?
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
A severe storm had been raging all day, and now, in the approaching twilight, seemed as if it would overleap all bounds in its wild confusion.
From A Sister's Love A Novel by W. Heimburg
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
If revenge on Marcia Lawrence was the object of the plot, the conspirators had overleaped themselves.
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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
Whatever obstacles he had found in his path, he had either adroitly avoided them or boldly overleaped them, but never laboriously uprooted them.
From Stephen Arnold Douglas by William Garrott Brown
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
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
Are there not associations which, overleaping the recent past, carry us back to times when, over North and South, this flag was honored alike by all?
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
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
They would fain have overleapt it, but it was too late.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
A little below where they stood, a good-sized brook passed below the road, which overleapt it in a single arch.
From Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson
The night that was waiting imminent outside, silently overleapt the barriers of golden light.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
At one step they had overleapt all that separated them, and were friends.
From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton
Come not to me, Bring not your body nearer, Though you overleapt the miles I could not behold you clearer.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
