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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

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

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

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

"I'd rather be here than any where else!" he exclaimed, in a burst of candor which quite overleaped the barrier of self-possession and came down on the other side.

From International Short Stories American by Various

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

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

It is not present as overleaping the temporal succession of nature, but it is present as an immediate fact for the mind.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead

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

A good motto for the book is, for Chesterton, that attributed to Cardinal Newman: 'Evil always fails by overleaping its aim and good by falling short of it.'

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Patrick Braybrooke

Therefore the High Commissioner overleapt the law, and by an ordinance banished these ringleaders to Bermuda during Her Majesty's pleasure.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan

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

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

The night that was waiting imminent outside, silently overleapt the barriers of golden light.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

As the sun paled to nothing in the yellow murk of dust, a high cloud of sand overleapt the northern peaks and came sifting down the slopes of Shadow Mountain.

From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge




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