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
But when they wish to arrive at the chief good, they overleap everything, and leave us two tasks instead of one—namely, to choose some things and desire others, instead of including both under one head.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
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
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
He made for the boundary wall, overleaped it, and then by legitimate pathways came before the entrance door.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
He was a bold man, and his indignation, in view of the pusillanimity of his uncle, at last overleaped his prudence.
From Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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
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
From all the townships lying on the banks of the Yukon, from Sitka and from the Canadian borderland, came endless processions—good men, bad men, women and children—all with the gold-lust overleaping any other considerations.
From Colorado Jim by George Goodchild
Having it in their power, they would rob even their nearest friends, thus overleaping that common law of "honour among thieves."
From Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. by Jonathan Harrington Green
Place Lady Macbeth in comparison with Richard III., and you see at once the essential distinction between masculine and feminine ambition—though both in extreme, and overleaping all restraints of conscience or mercy.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
She could not separate him from his genius; and his genius had long ago overleapt the social gulf.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
Streaks fairy green are traced on backward ways, Through vacant regions lightly overleapt, With pauses, where in soft pathetic haze Are phantoms of the joys that died unwept.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
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
A little below where they stood, a good-sized brook passed below the road, which overleapt it in a single arch.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
