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Definition of Leapfrogs
1. leapfrog [v] - See also: leapfrog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leapfrogs
Literary usage of Leapfrogs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Childhood in Literature and Art: With Some Observations on Literature for by Horace Elisha Scudder (1894)
"By some transmigration, souls have passed into tin-soldiers, balls, tops, beetles,
money-pigs, coins, shoes, leapfrogs, matches, and even such attenuated ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1889)
"... with white hair, allis a larfin, an a big chain in his west- cutt. We plaid
leapfrogs, and the ..."
3. Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-architecture of Desire by Mark Wigley (1998)
"Each section of the vast structure that leapfrogs across the landscape operates
like a tone ofthc traditional ..."
4. The People's Voice: The Development and Current State of the South African ...by Adrian Hadland, Karen Thorne by Adrian Hadland, Karen Thorne (2005)
"... on the cusp of these important technological innovations, 'leapfrogs' traditional
forms of media and embraces digital technology and its multiple uses. ..."
5. Language Reader by Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Jennie Freeborn Owens (1906)
"5 But Tom was most astonished to see how he fired himself off— snap! like the
leapfrogs which you make out of a goose's breastbone. ..."
6. The Atonement of Leam Dundas by Elizabeth Lynn Linton (1876)
"Madame could read with native grace and commendable fluency, making nimble
leapfrogs over the heads of the exceptionally hard passages, but Leam had to ..."
7. Journeys Through Bookland by Charles H. Sylvester (1922)
"But Tom was most astonished to see how he fired himself off—snap! like the
leapfrogs which you make out of a goose's breastbone. Certainly he took the most ..."
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