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But Aldrich's optimism rightly overleaped the battlefronts of controversy.
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Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism.
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With every fresh acquisition of national territory, the zeal of the contending power overleaped the congressional boundary, and demanded more for its own sectional policy.
From The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 by Edgerton, Joseph K. (Joseph Ketchum)
He was a bold man, and his indignation, in view of the pusillanimity of his uncle, at last overleaped his prudence.
From Hernando Cortez Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
The enthusiasm of the vast concourse of excitable Parisians overleaped all bounds.
From Josephine Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)