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
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
Young diplomatists and young greyhounds run fast and overleap the game.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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
On this occasion the gentleman followed so fast that he overleaped his goal, and arrived at the watering-place before the others appeared.
From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Marie Van Vorst
The mercurial spirits of the French soldier, which overleaped every obstacle in his path, were often found to evaporate in the tedium of protracted operations, where there was neither incident nor excitement.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
Never, in all her short life, had she so keenly felt the great social barriers that she had overleaped.
From Norston's Rest by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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
Nor was this the first paradox he had encountered since overleaping the brick wall.
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
It is not present as overleaping the temporal succession of nature, but it is present as an immediate fact for the mind.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
And as in all true poetry, this overleaping audacity of design is a mere expression of simplest gaiety.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
She could not separate him from his genius; and his genius had long ago overleapt the social gulf.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
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
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
Once that barrier was overleapt, or broken down, Anthony felt that the mission he had imposed upon himself would stand a chance of being accomplished, that his gnawing anxiety would be laid to rest.
From Bye-Ways by Robert Smythe Hichens
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
