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Sentences ending with leap

Flying bits of wood struck Venters, and the hot, stinging pain seemed to lift him in one leap. [13]
Anywhere else in the world it would be called the Lover's Leap. [4]
As he did so the puma sprang away from him, and crouched upon the rock, making ready for another leap. [11]
As your ship sank you sprang from it to my own ship--a splendid leap. [11]
Venters felt the increase in quivering, straining shock after every leap. [13]
With hurrying fingers he made the sign of the cross, a low: "Mary, pray for me," rose from his lips, then he shut his eyes and risked the leap. [10]
His spirits took another leap. [11]

Sentences containing leap two or more times

I have read somewhere of the great leap that one Don Alvarado, a Spaniard, made in Mexico, but surely never was a greater leap than you two made that night, landing safely on the other side, and making for the sea-shore. [11]

More example sentences with the word leap in them

I am glad you have laid down some rules by which a man may reasonably expect to leap the eight barred gate. [6]
There is a wild creature under that long yellow pin which serves as brooch for the bombazine cuirass,--a wild creature, which I venture to say would leap in his cage, if I should stir him, quiet as you think him. [6]
She whose heart was used to beat so evenly had felt it leap and swell with excitement, awaiting the moment when the jury filed back into the court-room. [11]
But Tom McChesney was the best wrestler of the lot, and could make a wider leap than any other man in Harrodstown. [9]
I thought he was creeping down that way, but I was not prepared for a leap spanning such a tremendous parenthesis of boarders as this change of position included. [6]
That elusive something was a lurking recklessness, which, perhaps, was not bold enough yet to leap into full exercise, or even to recognize itself. [11]
Ulrich did not wait for the end of the dispute, for Farnese was now springing into the hostile ship, and the former, with a bold leap, followed. [10]
Suppose she should use the garland as a rope and venture to leap over it on this giddy height? [10]
In spite of untold privations and hardships, of cruel warfare and massacre, these people had toiled over the mountains into this land, and impatient of check or hindrance would, even as Clark had predicted, when their numbers were sufficient leap the Mississippi. [9]
Perhaps it was too much to hope that he would mourn her sincerely, should the leap cost her life; but he would surely pity her, and he could never forget the moment of the fall, and therefore herself. [10]
The hills seem to leap up against the sky as I describe that region where Cynthia Ware was born, and the very old country names help to summon up the picture. [9]
His heart seemed to give a leap, then slowly to roll over with a thud, and he fell to the floor as the bear lunged forwards upon him. [11]
There were many things I wished to say, to know, but she was a woman whose mind seemed to leap the chasms, whose words touched only upon those points which might not be understood. [9]
He shies from the road with a leap, the man falls backwards into the wagon, and the reins drop. [11]
She had stifled the leap of her wrath, but for perhaps the first time in her life a bitter derision curled her lips. [13]
He remembered seeing the dark figure on horseback rise in the saddle and something leap from its hand. [6]
I sat by the clock to watch the leap from one day of the week to the next. [6]
The effort of the besiegers was to spy out unguarded places, and occupy the attention of the garrison so that a comrade might leap over the wall and set his foot on the hearth. [10]
True, the thought that he was not looking at her when she took the fatal leap still haunted her. [10]
It was a swift leap at his heart, and not merely the pleasant watering of his gums, that had forced the "Ah" to his lips. [10]
There was a sudden leap and stir of blood that had been asleep for an hour, and as sudden a rousing of all the drowsing activities in our minds and bodies. [5]
As she did so she looked out, and she saw Hiram leap into a boat and push the light bark from the shore. [10]
The last bound sent me spinning through the air in a leap of fifty or sixty feet, from one side of the gully to the other, and I struck the rocks, luckily, with the whole of my left side. [5]
Into his eyes seemed to leap a sudden appeal, an appeal to which my soul responded yet I hurried down the stairs and into the street. [9]
It causes young salmon to leap out of the fresh water, in which they could continue to exist, and thus unintentionally to commit suicide. [1]
This thing happens regular as leap year. [9]
Stepping back, he raised his sword high in the air, and, shouting the Shawanee war-whoop, took a flying leap up to his thighs in the water. [9]
Even the dipping paddles made no noise, though sometimes there was a gurgle, as though a fish had broken the water behind them; sometimes, in the shining pools ahead, she saw the trout leap out. [9]
After that leap over the tall barrier, it looks like a kind of impropriety to keep on as if one were still of a reasonable age. [6]
The words leap out before you know what is coming. [5]
The house was of wood, and was painted white as regularly as leap year. [9]
The prodigious height of the leap, and the precision with which it was taken so as to enable him to dip his head into the hat, exceeded any feat of the kind I have ever beheld. [5]
It was characteristic of his mind to leap forward, seize a suggestion that often appeared chimerical to a man like Fowndes and turn it into an accomplished Fact. [9]
There's the Glen o' Smiling, well worth seeing, and the Murderer's Leap, and Lover's Land--something for all tastes," he added, with a dry note to his voice. [11]
He was a nimble fellow, for he had risked the leap from the window, and then swung himself over the fence into the road. [10]
Now it will never leap and spring again, poor thing. [10]
He had encountered many people he knew on the street, but there had been no recognition of his leap into notoriety. [4]
Land, but it made my pulses leap, to think I was going to see you again!..... [5]
Presently the horse made a leap into the road in front of the motor and stood trembling, ready to bolt. [9]
Clement ran a little way up the river-bank, flung off his shoes, and sprang from the bank as far as he could leap into the water. [6]
How we all like the spirting up of a fountain, seemingly against the law that makes water everywhere slide, roll, leap, tumble headlong, to get as low as the earth will let it! [6]
It is nothing less than to leap from, here across all the intervening States to the White Sulphur Springs in Virginia. [4]
Mena had again leaped out of window, and was estimating the height of the leap to the ground; the Pharaoh's room was getting more and more filled with smoke, and flames began to break through the seams of the boards. [10]
She longed to leap over the hedge--she could have rushed into the house and flung herself between Paula and Orion. [10]
I longed to leap down there among them and claim her, but that thought was madness, for I should have been food for worms in a trice, so I kept my place. [11]
One, a broad, lacy sheet, thin as smoke, slid over the western notch and struck a ledge in its downward fall, to bound into broader leap, to burst far below into white and gold and rosy mist. [13]
But Orion must know whose image she bore in her heart and for whose sake she made that leap from blooming life into a watery grave. [10]
We came upon it out of total darkness, without warning; and we seemed, from our great height, to be about to leap into the splendid gulf of tremulous light and color. [4]
She had drawn it from her father's finger after he had taken his last leap and she was called to his corpse. [10]
Our example had induced others to leap down too. [10]
He is there in the clouds, in the tempests, where the lightnings play, and thunders leap, amid the elemental tumult, in the occasional great calm and silence and the pale sunlight. [4]
When he attained his full size he growled, and from that moment, as from instinct, he jumped out at the door and met the bear, who in another leap would have reached the lodge. [5]
He had felt his blood leap and his spirits rise in a way that could mean only one thing, and he knew Satan was near, although it was too dark to see him. [5]
And he gathered himself for a leap, and used the utmost effort, but he could not move his body the least. [5]
Herdegen's seat, at her left hand, was vacant; and she bid her white Brabant hound, as though in jest, to leap into it. [10]
Her heart within her gave a great leap of exultation that her lover was a man strong enough to compel, strong enough to defend. [4]
Now and then he makes a marvelous spring with his long legs, high over the stunted sage-brush, and scores a leap that would make a horse envious. [5]
With a leap he landed sprawling on the indolent gentleman's shoulders, nearly upsetting him. [9]
But the story had made my blood leap again with pride of her. [9]
That thing which had been growing up in every heart was ready to leap from every lip at last! [5]
Then with a gun-butt he shattered the ice and was the first to leap into the water under it. [9]
He asked no greater reward than this he had just received; and there was another thing which made his heart leap with gladness. [10]
It was a great leap, but the Englishman made it, catching the chains, and scrambling on deck. [11]
The chasm or gorge between Lover's Leap and the hill west of it is supposed by scientists to have been caused by glacial action. [5]
They appear, leap forth and vanish--like a funeral procession with torches in a pitch-dark night. [10]
Some were going for a blanket or a coverlet, in the hope that the young man might have strength enough to leap from the window and be safely caught in it. [6]
One pictures the fearful leap into the dark, the midway repentance, perhaps, the despair of the plunge. [4]
That was a fearful hour, when a shot had scarce to leap a cannon's length to find its commission; when the belches of the English guns burned the hair of our faces; when Death was sovereign, merciful or cruel at his pleasure. [9]
Perhaps the most exhilarating is that on a brilliant day, when shore and sea sparkle in the sun, and the waves leap high above the cliffs, and fall in diamond showers. [4]
In Italy almost every day is set apart for some festival, or belongs to some saint or another, and I suppose that when leap year brings around the extra day, there is a saint ready to claim the 29th of February. [4]
He saw the dogs leap up, and he followed suit. [13]
Then he helped Dada to leap from the car. [10]
I know that Cynthia was shot from under me before she had taken her leap, and we fell heavily together. [9]
I heard them coming after me, leap and bound, and crying out to one another. [9]
A suspension bridge cobwebbed itself across the Schuylkill where that audacious arch used to leap the river at a single bound,--an arch of greater span, as they loved to tell us, than was ever before constructed. [6]
None of the coast guardsmen, not even Lancy, could make the leap, for he was sick and trembling, though he had fired upon his own brother. [11]
They follow him close and they follow him fast, And he flies like a mountain deer; Then a mad, wild leap and he's safe at last! [11]
It was a breakneck piece of horsemanship, to which she had been driven by longing and sisterly love; and behind her came a man, my cousin Gotz, whose newly-married wife's daring leap was indeed after his own heart. [10]
And if he beat me and scorned me, if he fell so deep that no man would leap in after him, I, I, would never let him sink. [10]
He would leap ashore again all too quickly. [10]
He felt the artery leap, under his pressure, falter a little, stop, then begin again, growing fuller in its beat. [6]
The heathen leap and rage, the flames they are flinging will consume us. [10]
To exult, leap and grapple in the storm! [10]
Forward, leap up and be free! [10]
It only requires an effort to leap out of it, a single bound to be entirely successful. [7]
In swift death action he whirled, and with one last splendid leap he cleared the canyon rim. [13]
He gave it a strong push into the stream and with a powerful leap, as when hunting he had often sprung from rock to rock, he jumped into the boat. [10]
You are like a rider, who to win a wager urges his horse to leap over spears. [10]
This continued for a moment, in which we all were very still and bitter cold--the air cut like steel--and then my heart gave a great leap, for suddenly there stepped into the yard Doltaire. [11]
She would make a man's heart leap in his mouth-- if he was like Macavoy, or the pious Mowley there. [11]
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. [11]
A cry and a leap and the danger's past Oh, the sweet Saint Gabrielle hear! [11]
The lion has a good cause when it goes hunting for its young; the deer has a good cause when it resists the lion's leap upon its fawn. [11]

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