Perhaps it is too much to ask that it should succeed--this insolent effort of the pigmy man to leap upon the back of his master and fit a bridle into his mouth.
Hardly has he spoken when far, far out to the southwest two bright flashes leap through the darkness.
Then from their bases leapthe rolling foot-hills, brown and bare but for the dense growth of the sun-cured buffalo-grass.
She swayed back and forth, catching Romeo as he made a flying leap from the other trapeze, as easily as another girl would have wielded a tennis racquet.
A quickleap and a light foot on the grass startled her for an instant, then she laughed, for it was only Mr. Boffin, playing with his own dancing shadow.
He whistled and strode away, with the dog trotting at his heels; and by the time he gained the road the occurrence had almost wholly passed out of his mind, so fondly did his heart leap at the thought of the letter in his bosom.
In Madrid the exterior changes every leap year; the apartments are arrayed in new garments; that furniture is sold which our contact had consecrated.
He will soon follow you loose, play by your side, leap fences, and come to your whistle like a dog.
In hunting this would bring his hind legs on his fences, and oblige him to leap from the top of his banks and to land all fours, instead of extending himself and letting himself down gently.
The leap differs from the gallop not only in the greater space of ground cleared by the feet, but in the greater space of time for which the feet quit the ground; this last difference is of more importance than might be imagined.
Then up from the rear would come the other brothers like hawks; a leap to the ground while at full speed, sword in hand!
Tying to it one end of the long thong he always carried, Umpl flung the iron mass down on the head of a wolf that was trying to leap up within reach.
With an apple and five or six good nuts inside me, I feel like I could run through a troop, as the psalmist says, and leap over a wall.
For since the daughter's sudden leapinto maturity, the relations between the two had been strained, the instinct of sex rivalry overmastering such shadowy maternal impulses as had outlived Diantha's babyhood.
Monckton falls; against his columns Leap the troops of Wayne and Lee, And before their reeking bayonets Clinton's red battalions flee.
When We-math, chief of the Klamaths, recounting the exploits of his race, told how in ancient times they had lorded it over the Mollalies, Mishlah glared at him as if tempted to leap upon him and strike him down.
It is not well to leap headlong into a muddy stream, lest there be rocks under the black water.
One may leap up, and come down by step, but not ascend by step.
But of the two evils his quick mind chose the lesser ere the first note of Sabor's scream had scarce broken the quiet of the jungle, and before the great beast had covered half her leap Tarzan felt the chill waters close above his head.
At last Clayton saw the immense muscles of Tarzan's shoulders and biceps leap into corded knots beneath the silver moonlight.
To them the sudden scraping of one blade of grass across another was as effectual a warning as her loudest cry, and Sabor knew that she could not make that mighty leapwithout a little noise.
When they rested for a moment they would lie down and bite off the little balls of ice that formed beneath their toes, but at a word they would leap up again and throw themselves against their breast-bands, eagerly.
But then she lay back and reflected that its flood would be cleaner and its bed a better place to leap into, if her fears were realized, than the turbid waters of the Hudson.
Who could run with him, or leap with him, or swim with him?
He told Barnett so with such heat and at such length that he only just caught the six-twenty-four and had to leap into a third-class carriage.
Now who has been telling my leap year boy about birthdays?
Fred took a flying leap from the cannon right over his back, and putting himself at our head, rallied us for a grand charge.
In a few moments he heard the crack of a rifle and saw the noble buck leap high into the air.
He was all prepared to make one desperate leap upon the foe.
Raising his tomahawk in his right hand, the trapper made the venturesome leap with quite as much readiness as his opponent, and landed with a resounding splash.
I wanted to feel myself suddenly leap forward like a hound in the chase.
For nearly fifteen minutes, Oakley continued gambolling round our ship and then, with a sudden leap upwards, he passed over us and headed straight for the island.
As she rushed past me I saw a small, active brown body leapon to the dresser, seize a chunk of bread in its paws and then drop to the floor again, with Gran'pa and Molly in wild pursuit.
The stalls begin to leap with light, for everybody who is not anybody, but would like to be somebody, drags out everything she possesses in the way of personal adornment, and sticks it on her person, so that all the world may wonder.
From every church tower sparks of sound leap out on the expectant air, mingling and clashing with a thousand others; and the purple spires fling themselves to heaven with the joy of a perfect thought.
Her highways leapto festal bloom, And swallow-swift the traffic skims O'er sudden shoals of light and gloom, Made lovelier where the distance dims.
They seem to centre about the sounding viaducts that leap over Rosebery Avenue.
Gaslight and firelight leap on the spread table, glinting against cups and saucers and spoons, and lighting, with sudden spurts, the outer gloom.
They leapupon its crest, lying flat upon their boards, and are borne to the beach with the speed of the wind.
Of course, the people expected the fiery waves to leap up and swallow them, but nothing did happen, you know.
He could not return the way he went up, for, even unhampered by the child, he could not make the leap back to the pipe.
If he could climb that leader by means of those iron supports, he might be able to leap across the intervening space and reach the window.
They sang, played leap frog, and in a dozen other ways gave vent to their high spirits.
Our rooms were on the ground floor, and we were startled at reveille to see five or six dogs leap in at the open windows and run about the floor.
While they were doing this, Sunbeam made a leap and would have fallen into the lake, had not the watchful Mike caught her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
