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.
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Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.
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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
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
Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism.
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But Aldrich's optimism rightly overleaped the battlefronts of controversy.
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Then we learned that, as at Port Royal, the sea had overleaped its bounds and its victims by thousands were in its grasp.
From A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work by Clara Barton
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
By the education of the remaining senses, however, this formidable and heretofore insuperable barrier has been overleaped, or, rather, the obstacle has been met and overcome.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew
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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Thus only could he have completed the wondrous picture of the world, without leaving any step vacant or overleaping transitions.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
The tone was gentle, but Agatha would as soon have thought of overleaping a stone wall as of opposing a desire thus expressed.
From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Walter Crane
"He contracted," he says, "some acquaintance of a freer manner of thinking than he had been accustomed to, whose society prepared him for overleaping the bounds of rigid virtue which had hitherto restrained him."
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
A little below where they stood, a good-sized brook passed below the road, which overleapt it in a single arch.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
All these things, however, were mere preliminaries, and the imagination of the young man soon overleapt them.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
Therefore the High Commissioner overleapt the law, and by an ordinance banished these ringleaders to Bermuda during Her Majesty's pleasure.
From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan
In her great longing to comfort the woman, whose deep anguish she divined beneath the quiet desolation of her voice, Joan overleapt her own knowledge.
From The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
At one step they had overleapt all that separated them, and were friends.
From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton