Famous quotes containing the word leap:
“Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and musicabout affairs masculine and feminine,then take the leap in the dark.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“I cannot tell how many times we had to walk on account of falls or rapids. We were expecting all the while that the river would take a final leap and get to smooth water, but there was no improvement this forenoon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Iambics march from short to long;
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng;”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
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