The more he worried over the visit of his unknown cousin, the more Leaper the Locust wished he were safely rid of the whole affair.
He knew now why Leaper had struggled to escape from that mysterious messenger with the curious message.
One glance at the stranger's head--now that he had removed his hat--told everybody that Leaper the Locust was not mistaken.
Though the stranger said nothing in reply to that, he glared at Leaper in a threatening fashion which haunted him all the rest of the night.
Strange as it may seem, that remark always made Leaper the Locust terribly angry.
And Freddie intended to ask Leaper a good many questions about his cousins.
And spying Leaper the Locust on the edge of the crowd, he sprang upon him, collared him, and explained that there had been a mistake.
But the leap was made, and the heroic leaper staggered up the farther bank and rejoined his countrymen.
The leap of Alvarado is among the famous deeds in history, and the leaper was a striking figure in the pioneering of the New World.
In other words, to be an aerial leaper or an artist on the flying bars is quite as much a matter of heart as of agility and muscle.
The running high jump then must be made square to the bar, beginning with a slow run, quickened in the last twenty steps, till both feet spurn the ground with their utmost force and the leaper goes over the bar.
Instinct teaches the right way for a high leap better than anything else, and nothing but constant practice will strengthen the muscles to enable the leaper to make a good record.
If a leaper were to impel himself horizontally only, he would, in the shortest leap, fall below a level.
Olvir dropped forward, and the leaper stumbled and fell headlong over him into the rushes.
But the Saxon caught the blow on his sword, and as Gerold's shield clashed upon his own, he hurled the leaper backwards.
The leaper should always take advantage of any rivulet that has one bank higher than the other, to practise himself.
The player who is leaped upon, now makes a guess; if he guesses correctly, it is his turn to leap, if not, theleaper leaps again.
Should the leaper touch it with his feet as he takes his leap, it will be thrown off the pegs, thus showing that he did not make a clean leap.
If an almost perpendicular leap is made, the leaper would not have leverage enough to turn.
In descending, if the leap be a very long one, the leaper should descend principally upon his toes; if the leap be not very long, he may descend on the balls of the toes.
A goodleaper of sixteen years old ought to leap four feet six inches, and an extraordinarily good leaper five feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
