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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
leap .
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Examples
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Rueckertus and Hermannus, take Athene for “wisdom in person;” nor with Welckerus and Prellerus, for “the goddess of air;” nor even, with Muellerus and mathematical certainty, for “the Morning – Red:” but they say that Athene is the “black thunder-cloud, and the lightning that leapeth therefrom”!
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Mine old heart leapeth and boundeth because there is still something to adore on earth.
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A wise man feareth, and declineth from evil: the fool leapeth over, and is confident.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision
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A wise man feareth, and declineth from evil: the fool leapeth over, and is confident.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Even now, for slaying Bhimasena, he jumpeth up and leapeth transversely!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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A wise man feareth, and declineth from evil: the fool leapeth over, and is confident.
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A wise man feareth, and declineth from evil: the fool leapeth over, and is confident.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Seek thou to find at night the utter edge of the darkness, or seek to find the birthplace of the rainbow where he leapeth upward from the hills, only seek not concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods.
The Gods of Pegana Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917
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Thebes is bright with thee, and my heart it leapeth; yet is it cold,
Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles 1911
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At heart our party's as sweet and strong as corn; yea, as the young corn that leapeth to the rains of June.
A Hoosier Chronicle Meredith Nicholson 1906
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