What is "leaping"

Usage examples of "leaping".

But I could see Adena leaping at the beast, both hands gripping firebrands, and the bear cuffing her away.

The anchorman pulled the hooks free, then ran, leaping aboard just as the boat floated clear, nosing round into the current.

Pontiac had been warned at last of this new danger, and had sent his trusty Ottawas, leaping like deer, down the river banks with a faint hope that the approaching convoy might still be cut off.

Then appeared the smaller fish, the balista, the leaping mackerel, wolf-thorn-tails, and a hundred others which striped the luminous atmosphere as they swam.

At last one joyous day the doctor sent for Banty, who rode over with a led horse, and Con, leaping into the saddle, waved good-bye to Snooks, who, now convalescent, stood in the door of the distant shack.

Totha screamed in triumph and was on the point of leaping into his chariot to finish him when she choked, stood stiffly upright, her eyes glaring, and then clutched at the basketwork of the chariot.

When Four Bears waded ashore with the hat, the big white man was just leaping from the prow of the canoe onto the riverbank, a very agile leap for a man so large, and Four Bears went toward him with the wet hat and got a good look at the big man.

With Hannah she went deep into the woods to gather beechnuts while squirrels chirred and barked overhead, leaping from branch to branch in shivering outrage.

The cats began to yowl with excitement, the calico leaping back and forth, the black switching his tail like a blacksnake whip.

Then he went along the stiff line of Nazis and leaping in the sun and putting his cleaver through their brainpans, sinking as deep as the eyeballs, cut them down one by one as he made his slow, bloody way to his love.

Her mind leaping ahead, Jemima wondered why on earth Burgo Smyth would have wanted to kill Franklyn Faber.

So when he saw the flash, heard the gun shot, felt that ball smack into the boat at the waterline, however much he may have felt like killing himself before, the idea that someone was deliberately trying to murder him must have brought all his natural instincts toward self-survival leaping to the surface, must have armed and nerved him with the decision to escape, if for no better reason than to get the bushwacking coward who was trying to get him.

The last Tyli saw of the Boss Canvasman, he was leaping through the air to tackle the roughneck who had disobeyed his orders.

Every man of them as he ran from his own warm house on his way to the forge of Narl had seen lights leaping, or heard voices gibbering, which were of no Christom land.

He stopped dead, flung the bandbox over a garden wall, and leaping upward with incredible agility and seizing the copestone with his hands, he tumbled headlong after it into the garden.