A man and a woman; their backs were towards him, but his blood gave a leap at the sight as their identity flashed upon him.

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

Don't shoot in the dark!" I had a glimpse of Brutus darting through the passage and making a leap for the stairs.

We saw one fellow leap, with a clear bound, over two that were standing looking out over the water, and run some fifty rods up the beach, as if all the hounds in Christendom were at his tail, and then wheel gracefully, and return with equal speed to his companions, when they all commenced jumping and bounding, and running up and down along the shore, as if they were out on a regular spree, and were determined to be jolly.

He felt his heart leap.

We sat there watching the leap over the waterfall and about our arrangements for taking them.

The queer-smelling smoke drifted across to Sinclair; for a moment he was on the verge of attempting a quick leap and a tying and gagging of the Oriental, but he desisted.

She heard his leap on the gravel below, and his cautious footsteps receding towards the park.

No, I shan't try the leap again to-day, I don't feel like it; but I'll cross the long bridge half a mile from heregood-by;" and fully expecting him to meet her, she galloped off, riding ere long quite slowly, "so he'd have a nice long time to wait for her!"

When I say, "he marched," I am making a most incorrect statement, for he turned somersets and executed flying leaps on the road, far in advance of his comrades, until his progress was arrested by the barricade; this he greeted with a mocking gesture, and then, with a bound or two, was on the other side.

Tightly holding the saddle horn, he placed a moccasined foot carefully into the stirrup and pulled himself up awkwardly into the saddle, muttering to himself, "Alas, I can no more leap into my saddle.

Resolute, self-reliant, inflexible; hating compromise; never turning aside by a hair's-breadth from the path of duty; incapable of flattering high or low; dreading leaps in the dark, but dreading more than anything else the sacrifice of principle to partyhe was essentially the type of politician who is the despair of the official wire-puller.

I glanced back, half tempted to endeavor a sudden leap; yet she was fully prepared, and I hesitated.

Scarce fifty of that noble herd of buffaloes escaped the awful leap, but they escaped only to fall before the arrows of their ruthless pursuers.

Judge of our surprise at finding a fall of fifteen feet, after we had been led to expect a tremendous leap of forty or fifty, with all the accompaniment of rocks and precipices.

I heard ita hard and horrible sound that explained both the leap and the abrupt cessation of the whispered words.

Old Ben began to get a little nervous as he saw the boys eyeing the leap rather doubtfully.

The manhe had obviously been drinkingpaid no attention to either; or, rather, he seemed (since he could not disregard it) to take the dog's salutation for granted, and came lurching on, fencing back 'Dolph's affectionate leaps.

With one wild cry and flying leap, she jumped right over the water by the shore, on to the raft of ice beyond.

VILLA PLINIANA It stands where darkly wooded cliffs Slope swiftly to the deep, And silvery streams from ledge to ledge In foaming splendor leap, A broad expanse of saffron walls, A wilderness of mouldering halls.

No eye could follow the leap of his hand as it darted down and fastened around the snake just behind the head.

On the one hand, it forbids every leap, on the other, all repetition in the series of beings and the series of events.

For tho' by dint of spur he got A leap in spite of fate Howbeit there was no toll at all, They could not clear the gate.

In this Alfred seems to have committed a mistake, or to have made too great a leap.

one thought, having in mind Sir David Beatty's leap to the deck of a destroyer.