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
Now and then he made little semi-jocose attempts to overleap it, but at the worst a word could curb him where a glance failed.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
Abuses of Romance.––The romantic, on the other hand, because he works with greater freedom than the realist, may overleap himself and express in a loose fashion general conceptions which are hasty and devoid of truth.
From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Clayton Meeker Hamilton
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
In America the distance between Quebec and New Orleans, a distance of three thousand miles, is overleaped by the electric telegraph.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight
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
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
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
His great concern, overleaping every other consideration, was to save souls.
From Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Wesson Gage Miller
Nor was this the first paradox he had encountered since overleaping the brick wall.
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
Or disappointment, rather, and sore mortification,—dust and ashes, the common fate of vaulting ambition overleaping itself?
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster
There must have been moments in his life when the wish in its passion overleapt the bounds of hope.
From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
At one step they had overleapt all that separated them, and were friends.
From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton
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
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
Augustus himself was supposed to have the gift of divination; his foreknowledge overleapt the extinction of his own house, and foresaw, across a gap of fifty years, the brief reign of Galba.
From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail
