Jumping has always been popular with British athletes, and tradition has handed down the record of certain leaps that border on the incredible.
When feeding it progresses on all four legs, but if frightened takes gigantic leaps on the hind-pair alone; the length of such leaps frequently reaches twenty feet, or even more.
As we descend the solid stone stairway we observe with pleasure a waterfall that leaps from the ledge, gleams in the sunlight, and vanishes amid the rocks on the floor.
In this fifth dome also a waterfall leaps from the apex to the floor, where it vanishes into a chasm.
Indeed the steeds of the Arctic, if not the horsemen, had come to their aid in a time of great need, and, passing them with a wild leap, the dogs burst upon the deer with a rush and roar that sent them forward by leaps and bounds.
This type, once he is loosed, leapsat the throat of the first reindeer he sees.
It made longer leaps with every bound, and whenever it struck the fragments the dust would fly.
It was making mighty leaps now, and the terrified negro had managed to get directly in its path.
When he leaps in the water you are reminded of a porpoise splashing through the foam at the vessel's bow.
Its stocks started at shillings, and went by leaps and bounds to the most fanciful figures.
Its movements have a wonderful resemblance to the longleaps of a kangaroo-rat fleeing in alarm, with its long tail trailing behind it.
Perhaps--" Perhaps she would decide to remain with him at Belfontaine, but experience had taught him to go one step at a time rather than risk big leaps when he was not sure of his footing.
They had leaped to mine as blade leaps to blade, touches lightly, slides along, and holds your own with the compelling pressure that presages assault.
Trade was good, and remunerative enterprise continued to advance by leaps and bounds--to borrow one of Mr. Gladstone's famous phrases.
Saw a very large animal, which from its leaps I supposed to be a panther; but if so, it was twice as large as those on the lower Mississippi.
Just after dinner we pass a stream on the right, which leaps into the Colorado by a direct fall of more than a hundred feet, forming a beautiful cascade.
Before answer could be made Mother McNeil's house was reached, and with steps that were leaps Carmencita was at the door, and a moment later inside.
With leaps that took the steps two at a time Van Landing was beside her.
This, in addition to the transport required by the British forces in Canada, sent freights and tonnage up by leaps and bounds.
A mountainous wall of black water suddenly leaps up and crashes through the windward rigging.
The Snake-Who-Leaps will be at the tepee of my sister each day when the sun climbs to the point overhead.
The Snake-Who-Leaps will be proud of his pupils for the way they rode at his bidding.
But nothing occurred to suggest that the message of the Snake-Who-Leaps had been one of warning.
The Snake-Who-Leaps is the best horseman in our tribe.
He walked along behind the Snake-Who-Leaps in a meek, subdued manner quite new to him, but which immediately impressed Dark-Eye as being a vast improvement on his former bearing.
The Snake-Who-Leaps heard her ejaculation, and evinced his disgust.
When the Snake-Who-Leaps lifted the Sun Maid to the back of the Snowbird the woman felt an unreasoning anger against him.
A strap, which the Snake-Who-Leaps had fastened around the waist of the Sun Maid, held her securely to her saddle, though her small hands clutched the flying mane of her mount so tightly that she could not well have been shaken off.
Handing the Sun Maid into his sister's embrace, he for whom the message waited slipped the bridles of two horses over his arm while the Snake-Who-Leaps led the others.
It was no wonder, for theleaps which the pony had made were tremendous, and it was as remarkable that the little animal had kept its feet as that Lawrence had retained his seat in the saddle.
He saw his dream of carving up a choice townsite--of seeing it grow in value by leaps and bounds--go glimmering.
When frightened, however, their progress is by long bounds; the mice make a series of two or three such leaps to the nearest protective cover, and then sit motionless until pursued.
He found that the greatest jumps occurred initially and normally covered a distance of two to three feet; subsequent leaps were shorter but more rapid.
One young of the year found in tall grass near Victor made horizontal leaps of approximately three feet.
Then shall we be able to say, with Wordsworth, 'My heartleaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky.
It leaps from the page at him with the malignant suddenness of a serpent.
Every emotion from humor to concern leaps from the heart to the face as the subject touches them at, first this point of their life, then at that.
Now oriole and bluebird, thrush and lark, Warbler and wren and vireo, Mingle their melody; the living spark Of Love has touched the fuel of desire, And every heart leapsup in singing fire.
He leaps upon the Eastern hills All ruddy fire, and claims her with a kiss.
Then one leaps a yard or two through the air, and alights on the back of his playfellow; and both struggle and twist about in unimaginable contortions.
The creatures were pressing upon us on every side, as if trying to surround the sledge; and it was fearful to see the leaps that some gray old fellows among them would take at Metski and the horses.
He touched the mustang with the spur, and in a few fierce leaps found himself nearly abreast of the frightened animal he was chasing.
Some ancestral Cromwellian trooper leaps to life again in Nathaniel Greene, and makes a general of him, to confute five generations of Broadbrims.
The crowd sighs with delight, but Alex leaps off the seat like they was bees in the upholstery.
Sampson has took it all in and now he lets out a beller and leaps from the car.
And so Corse's statement that we "were driven from every position, and finally fled in great confusion," leaps over the bombastic and loses its force in ridiculous excess of inaccuracy.
To him as leaps a fountain she awakes, In knotting arms, yet boundless: him beside, She holds the flower to heaven, and by his power Brings heaven to the flower.
Shy as the squirrel that leaps among the pine-tops, Wayward as the swallow overhead at set of sun, She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
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