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- Ten feet more would have taken me in one gigantic leaps of eight hundred feet on to the glacier below. [5]
- These were the words he was singing as Sergeant Tom rode towards the tavern: "The hot blood leaps in his quivering breast Voila! [11]
- Then he sprang with long leaps from the ruined tower to the barren plain at his feet, and ran southward as fleetly as if he were escaping from captivity a second time. [10]
- The gray squirrels were out looking for their breakfasts, and one of them came toward us in light, soft, intermittent leaps, until he was close to the rail of the burial-ground. [6]
- Old age leaps upon it as his saddle, and rides triumphant, unchallenged, until the darkness comes which no glasses can penetrate. [6]
- The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood. [2]
- The heart leaps to see it. [4]
- Rameri now loosened the other end, and followed Mena's example; he too, practised in athletic exercises in the school of the House of Seti, succeeded in accomplishing the three tremendous leaps, and soon the king stood in safety on the ground. [10]
- To study the skillful tactics and aims of Napoleon and his army from the time it entered Moscow till it was destroyed is like studying the dying leaps and shudders of a mortally wounded animal. [2]
- It did not seem so strange that this silent General with the baggy trousers was the man who had risen by leaps and bounds in four years to be general-in-chief of our armies. [9]
- There is no other wood flame so rich, and it leaps up in a joyous, spiritual way, as if glad to burn for the sake of burning. [4]
- More than one of his leaps took him to the very edge of the precipice. [13]
- Half a mile nearer the river, on the house of the Minute Men, the strange flag leaps wildly in the wind this day. [9]
- He touched the mustang with the spur, and in a few fierce leaps found himself nearly abreast of the frightened animal he was chasing. [6]
- Reason is the mind--it leaps to the stars without realizing always how it gets there. [9]
- We walked slowly, making desperate leaps over the trenches, sometimes perforce going through them, treading gingerly on the "duck board" at the bottom. [9]
- Adrian rushed with long leaps to his little attic room, dressed himself neatly, and entered the presence of his family before the master of the house had asked the blessing. [10]
- Up leaps Mr. Garrick, so suddenly as to knock the paint-pot from Gast's hand. [9]
- At last she found strength to turn to fly, but at the same instant a loud and furious bark echoed behind her and she heard the monster's quick leaps as he flew after her along the stone pavement. [10]
- The young man flings open the carriage door and leaps out, and the door is almost broken from its hinges by the maple tree. [9]
- We will fly far --ah, your eye brightens, your heart leaps to mine--I feel it now, I--" "Oh, have done, have done," she passionately broke in; "I would rather die, be torn upon the rack, burnt at the stake, than put my hand in yours! [11]
- Fainter and fainter dropped the clamour behind me, which had risen as I started, and the leaps grew longer and longer. [9]
- Such was the conclusion, from rather insufficient premises, it must be confessed; but if nature does nothing per saltum,--by jumps,--as the old adage has it, youth is very apt to take long leaps from a fact to a possible sequel or consequence. [6]
- Its stocks started at shillings, and went by leaps and bounds to the most fanciful figures. [5]
- Nancy had what amounted to a genius for interior effects, and she was the first to introduce among us the luxury that was to grow more and more prevalent as our wealth increased by leaps and bounds. [9]
- Its movements have a wonderful resemblance to the long leaps of a kangaroo-rat fleeing in alarm, with its long tail trailing behind it. [5]
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