Leapt

Examples

• Gudrun's heart leapt in sudden terror, profound terror. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Temptation leapt on him like the stab of a knife. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the inky east two vast clouds, sailing contrary ways, met; the lightning leapt forth, and the hoarse thunder muttered. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She knelt down, and the flame leapt under her rapid hands. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Her heart leapt with relief--yes, there was the slow, strong stroke of the church clock--at last, after this night of eternity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She spoke hurriedly, as if her heart had leapt into her throat at the boy's words. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Some authorities even suppose that it leapt through the air. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Something that felt like the happy life I had never led yet, leapt up in me at the instant I set eyes on you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The moon leapt up white and burst through the air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• My heart leapt up: I was already on my master's very lands. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A sudden desire leapt in his heart, to kill her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And yet her heart leapt up light, to know he was her own again. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Now it leapt right up in the air, now sheer over a high hedge, and was again the moment after in the road before us. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He came round it and leapt upon the bank beside her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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