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Definition of Outleaping
1. outleap [v] - See also: outleap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outleaping
Literary usage of Outleaping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey by Homer (1903)
"Even on that word her whip outleaping shone; And in a little while the mules were
gone, Leaving the river, ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"... but in her eyes And in her breathing lip's soft tremulous curve "Was intense
motion as of prisoned fire Escaping subtly in outleaping thought. ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1920)
"In that dense area it was quite possible to be surrounded and cut off in a single
outleaping of the flames. The breeze lifted the sullen smoke now and then, ..."
4. Victorian Poets by Edmund Clarence ( Stedman (1901)
"His amazing tricks of rhythm are those of a gymnast outleaping his fellows.
We had Keats, Shelley, and Coleridge, after Collins and Gray, and Tennyson after ..."
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