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And although her position was more than seven feet from the ground, a height which, it might be supposed, could not have been reached by this class of animals in a perpendicular leap, yet so desperate had the present gang become by the taste of human blood, that they soon, in their determined and constantly-repeated efforts, began to strike and seize the beams with their teeth, by which they would hang suspended a moment, and then drop back again to the ground for another trial.
Then it seemed as if a heavy cloud passed by, and with a fearful leap I sprang upon it and floated through the sky until it began gradually to grow thinner and thinner and I lay unsupported in mid-air. Then I began to sink, first slowly, but gradually increasing in velocity until I seemed to go swifter than the wind, and at every moment expected to be dashed to pieces.
On his clumsy way across the saloon floor to the communicator, he felt the peculiar sensation of the booster-current, which should have been a sound, but wasn't. It was the sensation which had preceded the preposterous leap of the space-ship away from Luna, when in a heart-beat of time all stars looked like streaks of light, and the ship traveled nearly two light-centuries.
"And as for the ten miles, they are but a Highland leap, when one bears a message between his friend and his chief." So saying, and committing the traveller to the charge of his eldest son and his daughter, the active herdsman left his house two hours before midnight, to which he returned long before sunrise.
One leg hung a moment over the precipice, but the poor beast suddenly threw his whole weight forward, and by a desperate leap, obtained sure foothold in the path, and again trudged along with his coffee-bags. On our way we called at two plantations, but found no complaints. At one of them we had some conversation with the overseer.
It is only in the Orient that the human race presents a magnificent figure, but that is an effect of the constant calm affected by those profound philosophers with their long pipes, their short legs, their square contour, who despise and hold activity in horror, whilst in Paris the little and the great and the mediocre run and leap and drive, whipped on by an inexorable goddess, Necessity the necessity for money, glory, and amusement.
Without an instant's hesitation Phyllis Alden dropped to the ground. She must have made one flying leap, for she landed in front of the little captain's prostrate body. If Madge were to be trampled to death, that fate should not come to her alone. Phil had marvelous presence of mind. What she did she must have done by instinct. There was no time to think.
As memory scans the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures of life, there leap forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled to do unnoticed kindnesses to those around about you, things too trifling to speak about, but which you feel have entered into your eternal life.
The driver of the team sang out to him: "I say, pardner, you'd better come inside!" He neither turned nor spoke, but, bracing himself, suddenly crouched to the position for a standing leap, fist clenched.... A great cry rang out into the storm-filled night: "Champney!" The two men flung themselves upon him as he leaped, and in the ensuing struggle the three rolled together on the deck.
She obeyed the word without one second's delay. I slipped off, held the bridle, caught the bicycle, and led it instantaneously. Then I ran beside the pony bridle in one hand, machine in the other till Hilda had sprung with a light bound into the stirrup. At that, a little leap, and I mounted the bicycle.
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