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Definition of Outleapt
1. outleap [v] - See also: outleap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outleapt
Literary usage of Outleapt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Book of the Irish Historic Pageant: Episodes from the Irish Pageant Series by Anne Abbot Throop Craig (1913)
"Who in the princes' contest, outleapt others? HERALD. (Flourish.) Art Mac Conn
of the Princes! ... Until to-day, before this stranger lad outleapt me ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"... Upward and onward spreading warily That open an eternal summerland, Buddy and
glorious as the golded gates outleapt a living ray of saffron sun, ..."
3. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"... blaze outleapt with" black behind And* blank before, when Hayley and the rest .
. . But let the dead successors worst and best Bury their dead: with ..."
4. Poems by Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1866)
"... Sir Wilfrid's weapon, and outleapt From every angry eye a thousand darts Of
unsheath'd indignation, and a shout Went up among the rafters, ..."
5. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Then suddenly outleapt, on them ; tall glast-stained Britons, In routs, drive
soldiers, towards their naval camp : Whence Caesar issuing, armed, ..."
6. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Charles Augustus Briggs, Alfred Plummer (1920)
"The very first words of the text imply that the vision of the Seer has outleapt
the bounds of time, when the former heaven and earth have vanished for ever. ..."
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