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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
leap .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And when the king saw one come hurling over his head he said: Fellow, what art thou, and what is the cause thou leapest out at that window?
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Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee!
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To him good Aeneas speaks in bitter words: 'Lucagus, no slackness in thy coursers' flight hath betrayed thee, or vain shadow of the foe turned them back; thyself thou leapest off the harnessed wheels. '
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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And when the king saw one come hurling over his head he said: Fellow, what art thou, and what is the cause thou leapest out at that window?
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O lithe Temptation, thou swift tropical tiger of most rare exquisite spots, thou art never more dangerous than when thou hast just retired before a human eye into thy jungle, as if the eye-glance had conquered thee; for then, when the man hath twice gratulated himself, and whilst he is stooping to pluck one of thy jungle-flowers to crown his victory withal, then thou leapest!
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Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee!
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee!
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee!
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I stand upon thy banks where thou leapest the rocks of Saint Antoine, and with bold frothing current cleavest thy way to the south.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850
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