My heart made all at once a sudden leap in my breast.

The deer made three or four desperate leaps in a zigzag direction, and then went down.

At last Martin would lose his temper, and picking up a stick would turn on his playmate; and away the animal would fly, pretending to be afraid, and going over bushes and big stones with tremendous leaps to disappear from sight on the mountain side.

Those on the outside make little leaps into the air, trying to be tall.

Fancy takes bold leaps at the very suggestion of such an estimate, and begins to think at once of all things in the universe which are usually mentioned as beyond numbering.

In an even darker doom Tapioca's greatness ended, For her father to the tomb By swift leaps and bounds descended; Xingalong and Timbalu Both were slaughtered by Hupu, Who was slain by Popocotl, Who himself soon after slew With an empty whisky bottle.

The rabbits begin it, taking the trail with long, light leaps, one eye and ear cocked to the hills from whence a coyote might descend upon them at any moment.

Under her administration the English national life progressed by gigantic leaps rather than by slow historical process, and English literature reached the very highest point of its development.

You see that[With a backward leap, suddenly withdrawing her wings.

Finding these demonstrations unavailing, and convinced that some urgent cause for hurry had suddenly invaded the elder's serenity, as it had his own, he began to cover the ground with frantic leaps that would have surprised his owner could he have realized what was going on.

And in that moment, he made unto me with so mighty a leap as any tiger should give.

A jerk and a strain,a bellow and a convulsive leap,his lasso is fast around the horns of a bull in the galloping herd.

Jeremy Taylor notices with admiration, the extraordinary leaps which people will take under the influence of fear.

The tiny Mumbles, sitting beside the chair with his head cocked to one side, suddenly made a prodigious leap and landed in Myrtle's lap, where he began licking her chin and wagging his stumpy tail as if seconding the invitation.

The racer danced proudly, prancing forward in short, graceful leaps as the column swept past the grandstand and the consolidated Eagle Butte and Vegas bands crashed out the strains of a stirring march.

It was a dangerous leap, for the ground on both banks was yielding and slippery.

Look back for only fifty years, and note what a stupendous leap it has taken!

There is generally some dark spot in the history of such men as Smithsonmen who climb the giddiest heights of this world with that desperate rapidity which implies many a perilous leap from crag to crag, many a moraine skimmed over, and many an awful gulf spanned by a hair-breadth bridge.

" Phillips saw that same fearful look leap into the woman's eyes, and it checked his heated retort.

I will not trouble the reader here with the reasons why geologists connect the chalk with the greensands below it, by regular gradations, in spite of the enormous downward leap, from sea-shore to deep ocean, which the beds seem (but only seem) to have taken.

For when the Bataviaman went on the beach, I stood as near her as our rescuers had stood to us last night, and there were some aboard who took the fatal leap from off her bows and tried to battle through the surf.

When liberated from its fetters, it remained lying on the ground with all its four limbs stretched out, and its belly in contact with the earth, and then hopped in short awkward leaps, without thereby raising itself from the ground, to the nearest wall, which was of planed boards.

"The shooting," said the doctor, who had kept his fingers on the wrist of his patient; "I could feel his pulse leap and stop when he said that.

" Sylvia's heart gave a frightened leap.

They sprang upward continually, with short, agonized leaps, like drowning creatures struggling to keep afloat above some invisible flood.