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
"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.
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Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.
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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 Rameur, E.
I wondered if she meant to emancipate "ladies" merely, or if her principles could possibly overleap her birthright of caste?
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism.
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But Aldrich's optimism rightly overleaped the battlefronts of controversy.
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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 Brown, William Garrott
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 Pittenger, William
With every fresh acquisition of national territory, the zeal of the contending power overleaped the congressional boundary, and demanded more for its own sectional policy.
From The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 by Edgerton, Joseph K. (Joseph Ketchum)
To them the interview is not a matter of getting their names into print, of overleaping a confrere's practice.
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Many of his admirers could not understand why the former Communist sympathizer turned to Gaullism, overleaping all the moderate positions in between.
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But, without pause, overleaping the barrier, the unflagging sailors again closed.
From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman
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 Garibaldi, Giuseppe
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 Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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 Lang, Andrew
—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 Addison, Joseph
The night that was waiting imminent outside, silently overleapt the barriers of golden light.
From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
The clear young eyes looked straight through it, the fresh young voice made nothing of it, the playful fancies overleapt it.
From A Bookful of Girls by Fuller, Anna
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 Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus