Leaps
[li:ps]
Examples
- Then he struck gold, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The lion was bounding along in easy leaps scarce five paces behind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Over babbling brooks they took impossible leaps, which seemed to keep them whole days suspended in the air. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The author apparently believes that organisation progresses by sudden leaps, but that the effects produced by the conditions of life are gradual. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- When a bird rises from the ground it leaps up with head stuck out and expanded tail, so that the body is in the position of a boy’s kite when thrown up. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Was short in his leaps and bad in his tumbling,' Mr. Childers interpreted. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Since Edison completed his final series of investigations on his storage battery and brought it to its present state of perfection, the commercial values have increased by leaps and bounds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So quickly the virus worked that at the end of a dozen leaps the deer plunged headlong into the undergrowth, dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Driver darts up, Brewer leaps in, they cheer him as he departs, and Mr Podsnap says, 'Mark my words, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Their leaps and bounds increased, their bared fangs dripped saliva, and their lips and breasts were flecked with foam. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Editor: Peter