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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Leap
 
  Leap like a cock at a blackberry.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Leaps, like happy hearts by holiday made light.
            —Bernard Barton		  2
  Leaped in the air like a shot rabbit.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  3
        Leaps like a young horse
Who bites against the new bit in his teeth,
And tugs and struggles against the new-tried rein.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  4
                Leap such leap
As lands the feet in Heaven.
            —Robert Browning		  5
  Leapt like a tongue of fire that cleaves the smoke.
            —Robert Browning		  6
  Leaps like a bared sword.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  7
  Leap like trout in May.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  8
  Leaped as if stung by an electric shock.
            —George B. McCutcheon		  9
  Leapt like a leaping sword.
            —Joaquin Miller		  10
  Leap away lyke froges.
            —John Skelton		  11
  Leaped like a roebuck from the plain.
            —H. and J. Smith		  12
  Leaping like wanton kids in pleasant spring.
            —Edmund Spenser		  13
  He leaped like a man shot.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  14
  Leap, like moody madness to the changing moon.
            —John Struthers		  15
  Leaps clear as a flame from the pyres of the dead.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  16
  Leaps like fire.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  17
                Leap up
As red wine mantling in a royal cup.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  18
  Leaps up as the foe’s heart leaps.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  19
  Leapt like a passing thought.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  20
  Leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
            —Old Testament		  21
  Leapt as lightly as weanling fawns that leap around the doe.
            —Theocritus		  22
  Leap like a caressing angel.
            —N. P. Willis		  23
 
 
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