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, only by carrying up ordinary facts to this higher, ideal sphere was it possible to overleap the limits of time and space, and give greater unity to the picture, and make it a masterpiece.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
Their vaulting ambition did not again try to overleap the Pyrenees; and they addressed themselves to settling affairs in their new territory.
From A Short History of Spain by Mary Platt Parmele
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
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
How had it overleaped content and ease of mind!
From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher
When he subsequently learned that one James Conlan was to visit them as guest, his suspicions overleaped his delight.
From Colorado Jim by George Goodchild
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
In these, the example of overleaping the law is of greater evil than a strict adherence to its imperfect provisions.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Nor was this the first paradox he had encountered since overleaping the brick wall.
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
Like a flood overleaping the barrier that held it back, the words came eagerly.
From People Like That by Kate Langley Bosher
Therefore the High Commissioner overleapt the law, and by an ordinance banished these ringleaders to Bermuda during Her Majesty's pleasure.
From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan
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
—Begirt th' Almighty throne Beseeching or besieging— This tempted our attempt— At one slight bound high overleapt all bound.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
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
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
