251 collocations for leaps

He would leap an ugly fence without moving an inch in his saddle, and both in skill and the quality of his mounts he was an easy victor.

It being midnight, Romeo with his companions departed; but they soon missed him, for unable to stay away from the house where he had left his heart, he leaped the wall of an orchard which was at the back of Juliet's house.

He leaped up a dozen feet into the air, bleated out in the extremity of his terror, and plunged madly forward, as if a whole legion of fiends were at his tail.

Weatherford was defeated and escaped by leaping his horse from a precipice into the river and swimming to the other side.

At last, therefore, as the singer still kept out of sight, I leaped the ditch and pushed into the scrub.

A Frenchman goes out, upon a managed horse, and capers in the field, and no more thinks of leaping a hedge than of mounting a breach.

No masques, few banquetingsand prayers Be long, and youth for pastime leaps the gate?'

Seizing an armful of the papers, he leaped down the attic steps, three at a time.

They came at last to the point in the trail where they had to leap down a distance of three or four feet from the edge of a rock, and here Kazan saw how utterly helpless Gray Wolf had become.

There is little doubt but that such inhuman sacrifices were once offered in this country as well as in the east; although the act of sacrifice is now dispensed with, the devoted person being only compelled to leap three times through the flames, with which the ceremony of the festival is closed.

Higher and higher leaped the flames.

It is impossible for any ego to leap this barrier and enter into the experience of any other ego."

In an instant she became rigid, and a moment after, a frightful tetanic convulsion caused her to leap thrice into the air, and then to fall upon the floor with a dreadful crya cry that was truly human.

Sometimes the lads also leap over the fire brandishing lighted torches of pine-wood.

And sudden, I leapt unto the right of the man, thinking within me that I did perceive a chance that I should cut him upon that side; but, truly, he was less awearied than I did know; for he came very sharp upon me, and had me between him and the wall of the Rock; and surely I had no room to make escape, and had died in a moment, but that I made a sudden sham toward the left with the Diskos, as that I should leap that way.

"Because that fellow leaped the rail from the wharf.

I found I couldn't leap the streams; I had to climb down the banks and wade them.

Like a deer she leaped down the marble stairs and, in a panic she had no need to assume, burst into the presence of the staff.

They leap over the glowing embers or even through the flames.

For answer, Magua raised a shout of triumph, and, leaping a wide fissure, made for the summit of the mountain.

Thus, in a while the trembling citizens of Belsaye, starting from their slumber, stared in pallid amaze beholding afar a great and fiery gibbet whose flames, leaping heavenward, seemed to quench the moon.

She had leaped that narrow gorge often, and now when the stranger's eyes unclosed she stood upon the opposite bank, caressing the noble animal which had borne her safely there.

But she leaped down the steep rocks, and stood on the narrow ledge of shore below, to wait the moment for action.

Without heeding for a moment my anxious inquiries as to what was the matter, he kept right on, leaping the logs like a deer, looking neither to the right hand nor the left, but with his coat tail sticking out on a dead level behind, making a straight wake for home.

A skeleton horse leaping a hurdle.

251 collocations for  leaps