I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and the foxes, I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the woods, by day or darkness.
Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!
Scapegrace leaped up. “I am the Killer Supreme! I make murder into an art form!” Skulduggery hit him again and Scapegrace did a little twirl before falling.
An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.
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.
How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.
Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.
You couldn't catch a mouse if leaped in between your paws!
He leaped to his feet, grabbed her, and spun her to face him. "No more bullshit, Sin. Feel what you've done. " He took her hand and pressed it to her chest, where her heart was pounding painfully fast. So was his. "Let yourself feel something for someone else. " ~Con
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science. The whole theory and experiment, seems as if it had leaped, full grown and full armed, from the brain of the 'Newton of Electricity'. It is perfect in form, and unassailable in accuracy, and it is summed up in a formula from which all the phenomena may be deduced, and which must always remain the cardinal formula of electro-dynamics.
The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed
Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute. " "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.
You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.
. . . I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.
