A yawning gap of seven feet lay in front of her. She…

When I ran, I jumped, I leaped. Vick doesn't seem to do nearly as much of that. I was a high jumper in high…

— Randall Cunningham

“Hell,” he said. “Just when it was getting interesting, too.” And he leaped into the water after his friend.”

— Cassandra Clare

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

— Charles Spurgeon

...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had…

— John Keats

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

— Josephine Baker

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

— Bernard Bailyn

“Mighty rivers might be easily leaped at their source”

— Publius Syrus

“Without wiping away the tears, taking a deep breath, or even bending his knees—he leaped. For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you…

— Toni Morrison

She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered…

— Emma Donoghue

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

— Publilius Syrus

“But before he leaped away he asked, “Still best friends, right?” A soft smile curled her lips, and her heart pulled back into place.…

— Shannon Messenger

“My heart leaped like the cheerleader I will never be.”

— Sheila Turnage

My field-mouse had made a set of brand-new tracks; here and there they etched themselves, following the brown flowers. It seemed as if uncommon…

— Anne Bosworth Greene

“Which road, which road did you take That brought you here at last? No road, no road did I take. I leaped, I leaped…

— Franz Werfel

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

— Lois McMaster Bujold