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Definition of Overleapt
1. overleap [v] - See also: overleap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overleapt
Literary usage of Overleapt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surety Bonds: Nature, Functions, Underwriting Requirements by Edward Clark Lunt (1922)
"The American Underwriters overleapt Themselves As stated above, the American
bonding companies, in their determination to rescue their bank fidelity ..."
2. Imagination in Dreams and Their Study by Frederick Greenwood (1894)
"... and if so, then that the limits of imagination which philosophy marks out,
and which no effort of the waking mind can surmount, are overleapt in sleep. ..."
3. The Analogy of Thought and Nature by Edward Vansittart Neale (1863)
"In other respects time has the same characters as space; the character of
self-limiting limitlessness : of bounds set only to be overleapt; ..."
4. The Odyssey by Homer (1903)
"Tyro, Alcmena, and Mycene crowned — Even among these the equal was not found In
wise devices of Penelope : Yet now her wit has overleapt the bound. ..."
5. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"He was as as a chela who, seeing his master sitting in dust outside the gates of
learning, overleapt the (though they were locked) and took his master his ..."
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