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Quotes About Leaped

Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar.
~ Joseph Conrad
Alfred, will you help us?" Before the boy could answer, he heard the sound of bootsteps approaching. STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! "Guards!" he hissed. "Go! Go! Go!" implored Mother, so he jumped down from the bucket, and leaped on to a pile of hay. THUD! There he pretended to be asleep. Alfred even did his
~ David Walliams
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.
~ Derek Landy
Buoyed by these dividends, the price of Standard Oil shares leaped from 176 in 1896 to a high of 458 three years later.
~ Ron Chernow
Christian had settled in one of the camp chairs with his drawing pad but leaped up to study a cobweb in a high shadowed corner. The spider had spun a few words into the web: FREE BED FOR FLYS
~ Joe Hill
Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
~ Joanna Southcott
Some immaterial pattern of energy, throwing off a spray of radiation like the wake of a racing speedboat, had leaped from the face of the Moon, and was heading out toward the stars.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He charged down the hill. He leaped to his
~ Mary Pope Osborne
I'm a codebreaker, aren't I?" Squirrelflight winked at her, then turned to face Bramblestar as he leaped down the rock tumble.
~ Erin Hunter
The phone rang. Joan Rochester leaped to her feet, but Dominick signaled her to sit with a wave of his hand. He wiped his face as though it were a windshield and rose from his seat. Dominick was a thick man. Not fat. Thick. Thick neck, thick shoulders, thick chest, thick arms and thighs. The
~ Harlan Coben
Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker's dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren't in our favor. "Maybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar," I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. "That's a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake.
~ Ilona Andrews
A few moments later the man was with us, looking so brainy and intelligent that my heart leaped up as if I had beheld a rainbow in the sky. 'Oh, Jeeves,' I yipped. 'Oh, Jeeves,' yipped Aunt Dahlia, dead heating with me.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Come, come, leave off play, and let us away, Till the morning appears in the skies. No, no, let us play, for it is yet day, And we cannot go to sleep; Besides, in the sky the little birds fly, And the hills are all covered with sheep. Well, well, go and play till the light fades away, And then go home to bed. The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laughed, And all the hills echoed.
~ William Blake
IceWing!" he yelped, flailing over backward. Tsunami leaped to her feet, teeth bared. "Look out! It's — oh." Starflight took a deep breath as Glory's scales shifted back to brown and gray. "Glory! Why would you do that to me?" "Because it's hilarious," she
~ Tui T. Sutherland
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.
~ Derek Landy
Mad with terror, many even leaped into the deadly water of the river. 'We're not going to be able to get through that mob, Polgara,' Barak said.
~ David Eddings
the room leaped to darkness.
~ John Steinbeck
Batman… and… Robin?" Nightwing leaped at him. His legs wrapped around the man's torso and he spun, throwing him across the room. "It's Nightwing, you moron," he protested. "Nightwing and Batman. Robin was a little kid. Couldn't have been more than four feet tall. Used
~ Unknown