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overleap

[oh-ver-leep] / ˌoʊ vərˈlip /
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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

Indeed, it is not extravagant to say that the future of the country opens before us, as we see what skill and will can do to overleap obstacles, and make nature subservient to human designs.

From Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883 by William C. Kingsley

The facts would now require much restatement; and moreover, the narrative is too apt to overleap prosaic but necessary facts in order to fasten upon the picturesque passages.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

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

I could hear a strange rush upon the mountain, and along the glen, as if the Solway had overleaped all bounds, and was careering some thousand feet abreast over Criffel and Queenberry.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton

But as the General sought to retire from the scene, the enthusiasm of the crowds overleaped all bounds of propriety.

From The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 by Z. F. (Zachariah Frederick) Smith

They create their own barriers, which cannot be overleaped.

From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

To them the interview is not a matter of getting their names into print, of overleaping a confrere's practice.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

"He contracted," he says, "some acquaintance of a freer manner of thinking than he had been accustomed to, whose society prepared him for overleaping the bounds of rigid virtue which had hitherto restrained him."

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee

My horse took fright, and galloped along the road, overleaping and overturning every thing in his way, in spite of all my endeavors to check his speed.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi

Regardless of a storm of blows Swift to the sky the Vánar rose, Then lightly like a flying ball High overleapt the city wall, And joyous for deliverance won Regained the side of Raghu's son.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

In her great longing to comfort the woman, whose deep anguish she divined beneath the quiet desolation of her voice, Joan overleapt her own knowledge.

From The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

But what are obstacles for but to be overleapt?

From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm

The houses at length overleapt the wall of Philip Augustus, and merrily scattered themselves at random over the plain, like prisoners who had made their escape.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge

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




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