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Meanings of leap overboard in English

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Usage of leap overboard in English
1
Owner and engineer had only time to adjust life-preservers and leap overboard.
Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis / Two Plebe Midshipmen at ...
2
Take care that he does not leap overboard to avoid you.
The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea
3
The wise Chinamen leap overboard and swim on to shore.
The Three Midshipmen
4
I should simply leap overboard, I know I should, and I told him so.
The Keeper of the Door
5
Just then he saw Elaine run, screaming, out from the cabin and leap overboard.
The Romance of Elaine / Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"
6
One might well drive a man insane, cause him to leap overboard in utter horror.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
7
They made one young lad very nearly leap overboard, where he would have been drowned.
Old Jack
8
He sprang up, chased him, and caught him just as he was about to leap overboard.
Cord and Creese
9
He saw the green sea pouring in, and he saw Andy standing up, ready to leap overboard.
Frank and Andy Afloat; Or, The Cave on the Island
10
Pull with all your might, lads, for the man is insane, and is preparing to leap overboard.
The Ape, the Idiot & Other People
11
Tom's first impulse was to leap overboard.
The Three Admirals
12
When the body was lowered down, he considered that his time was come, and attempted to leap overboard.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
13
Fifty -sixty -seventy Frenchmen would burn to death if they did not leap overboard to drown.
Hornblower and the Crisis
14
So, when they saw the land quite near, what did they do but leap overboard, and swim towards it!
The Nursery, January 1873, Vol. XIII. / A Monthly Magazine for Y...
15
Edwards, also about to leap overboard at that moment, paused, raised his revolver, took careful aim at Davis and fired.
The Boy Allies Under the Sea; Or, The Vanishing Submarines
16
Thanking him heartily, I said that we would leap overboard suddenly, in order that no one might attempt to stop us.
Saved from the Sea; Or, The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Sa...
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