What a broad jumper does

Usage examples of leaps.

Instantly my coat tails were over my head, and I was progressing in great leaps and bounds, and quite against my will, towards him.

In a very little time indeed, certainly after fewer than thirty leaps, we could judge the effort necessary for a distance with almost terrestrial assurance.

On earth one leaps and almost instantly hits the ground again, but on the moon, because of its weaker pull, one shot through the air for several seconds before one came to earth.

I stood for a moment watching him, then faced westward reluctantly, pulled myself together, and with something of the feeling of a man who leaps into icy water, selected a leaping point, and plunged forward to explore my solitary half of the moon world.

I threw up my arms, shouted a ghostly shout, and set off in vast leaps towards it.

I missed one of my leaps and dropped into a deep ravine and twisted my ankle, and after that I stumbled at almost every leap.

Perhaps it was a couple of miles away--a matter of a few hundred leaps and strides.

I was two miles away, a hundred leaps or more, and the air about me was thinning out as it thins under an air-pump, and the cold was gripping at my joints.

It was very unpleasant to see those filthy and disproportioned animals which soon numbered about fifteen, grubbing about and making their kangaroo leaps in the grey twilight where titan towers and monoliths arose, but it was still more unpleasant when they spoke among themselves in the coughing gutturals of ghasts.

For when it leaps and draws you together then I, Ishtar, will enter you, Zarpanit, and give it battle!

Ho--let us find such a corner where we may lurk till this hell dog leaps past.

And once Sam began his uncontrolled Leaps, he knew Thelma Beckett had been right.

Donna had tried to keep up with the Leaps in chronological ordernot by the years Sam was in but by the sequence here in her own time.

Before the Leaps, Al had always believed the money would be found and the problems would be solved and the whole grandiose scheme would work.

He had no control over his Leaps, no choice, nor even any knowledge of who needed helpso how could he possibly know where and when he was needed?