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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

"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.

From Time Magazine Archive

Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.

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

And had they shown any disposition to learn, Jesus was too wise a teacher to hurry them and overleap needed steps in conviction and experience.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

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

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

But when he, a stranger to congressional halls, was made a member of the Ways and Means Committee, his astonishment overleaped all bounds.

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

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

She kept every one within the strictest barriers of propriety in their behavior to herself, while she, in her own behavior, was every moment overleaping them.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke

However, after, like ‘vaulting ambition,’ overleaping himself when trying to jump into his unaccustomed bed-place, falling, equally unceremoniously, ‘on t’other side,’ Mick succeeded in ensconcing himself very comfortably in his hammock.

From Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy by John B. Greene

The dread of overleaping the restraints of law, which, perchance, has prolonged the conflict, has been most creditable to the genuine democracy we have represented.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various

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

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

William overleapt his own low wall and drew nearer to observe, his pulses beating rapidly.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks

All agree that these poems represent a new departure in poetry, and some consider that in them the poet, in thus dealing with metaphysical abstractions, has overleapt the boundaries of the poetic art.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones

The anthropomorphic conceptions of Deity, which were prevalent, easily overleapt the interval between the human and Divine.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill




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