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
But we both believe in the Bible ritual, and those words, 'until death doth part,' have been a barrier which neither of us was willing to overleap.
From The Masked Bridal by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
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
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
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
How had it overleaped content and ease of mind!
From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher
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 lighting 'on Niphates' top,' and overleaping the gate of Paradise, may be used as arguments either way.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
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
In fact, we are told, the poet has, in the Acharnians, shown his true greatness by overleaping all restraints of time and place and giving his fancy free rein.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
As the sun paled to nothing in the yellow murk of dust, a high cloud of sand overleapt the northern peaks and came sifting down the slopes of Shadow Mountain.
From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge
With every ready imagination she leaped full upon the fires of an ambition which accepted no check but fed upon difficulty and overleapt obstacles.
From Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
But what are obstacles for but to be overleapt?
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
At one step they had overleapt all that separated them, and were friends.
From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton
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
