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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Lastly, Pius the Fifth, urged by that fiery enthusiasm which made him overlook or overleap every obstacle in his path, would have marched on Constantinople, and then carried his conquering banners to the Holy Land.
From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott
Let us, however, overleap the intervening centuries, and betake ourselves to the poetry of our own land and our own language.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
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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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 Joseph K. (Joseph Ketchum) Edgerton
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
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.
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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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Are there not associations which, overleaping the recent past, carry us back to times when, over North and South, this flag was honored alike by all?
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
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
Like a flood overleaping the barrier that held it back, the words came eagerly.
From People Like That by Kate Langley Bosher
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
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
The ore-bins were intact, for the fly-wheel had overleapt them, but tables and tanks and concentrating jigs were utterly smashed and ruined.
From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge
Sometimes these brotherly and sisterly persons have a fence of shyness which cannot be instantly overleapt; but one generally can discern the beautiful creature waiting gently within.
From The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson
In those early colonial days the settlers overleapt and left behind them leagues of primeval forest, to all appearance inviolate.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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