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  • Leaping from the truck, he landed on his face, badly breaking his nose.

    The Wrong Man 2010

  • Leaping from the truck, he landed on his face, badly breaking his nose.

    The Wrong Man 2010

  • Leaping from the davits of the boat-deck above, they plunged downward, their faces and shoulders bowed forward, looking at the water.

    Under the Deck Awnings 2010

  • Particularly interesting in Leaping to the Stars are the constant reminders of life in space and on a spaceship.

    REVIEW: Leaping to the Stars by David Gerrold 2003

  • Leaping from the davits of the boat-deck above, they plunged downward, their faces and shoulders bowed forward, looking at the water.

    Under the Deck Awnings 1913

  • Leaping from the deck, he landed upon the haunches of the charger, behind the knight, and that moment the sea became smooth as glass, and the strange steed disappeared with his two riders.

    The Fairies and the Christmas Child 1912

  • Leaping from the davits of the boat deck above, they plunged downward, their faces and shoulders bowed forward, looking at the water; and only at the last moment did they abruptly straighten up and enter the water erect and true.

    Under The Deck-Awnings 1910

  • Before that accident, which caused his toe to rot, he had been called Leaping Elk, a far more flattering name than the one he ended up with.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • This month, Nightjar will publish Lexicon by Christopher Burns, author of The Flint Bed, and Field by Tom Fletcher, whose first novel The Leaping was a word-of-mouth hit.

    The Guardian World News Helen Carter 2011

  • To some he was known as the Leaping Panther, for he was a man of an extraordinary jump; and others again used to style him Pepperage, since there was a saying that neither bullet nor sword could enter his body: though that was a mistake, as his death hath fully proven.

    The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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