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
When we pass from Chaucer’s age, however, we have to overleap nearly a hundred and eighty years before we alight upon a period presenting anything like an adequate show of literary continuation.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson
Driving before a strong wind, the medanos speedily overleap all barriers, the lighter and more easily-propelled preceding the heavier like an advanced guard.
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
But it may be doubted whether this vaulting ambition has not overleaped itself, and whether a puppet-show does not gain rather than lose by restricting its efforts within narrower limits.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
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
It may safely be averred, that no straining of the human intellect can compute the interval overleaped betwixt those originals, and these transcriptions.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
To them the interview is not a matter of getting their names into print, of overleaping a confrere's practice.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Here was an instance of ambition overleaping itself,—exceeding by far the needs and conditions of its environment and like many another ill-planned venture, it fell to ruin through a lack of logic and mental balance.
From The Cathedrals of Northern France by Blanche McManus
George R. Gilmer, a follower of Crawford, tells of the latter: “He was violently opposed to the nullification movement, considering it but an ebullition excited by Mr. Calhoun’s overleaping, ambition.”
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
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
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
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
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
But what are obstacles for but to be overleapt?
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
But moat and mound, cannon and cavern, were at length overleapt, silenced and exhausted.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
