Word: leapt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dormitory awoke, but none of them spoke . . . Then the door opened violently of its own accord without anybody seeing anything except a dim light of changing color that seemed to control the sound . . . Then a voice was clearly heard. 'Bosco, Bosco, Bosco, I am saved.' . . . The seminarists leapt out of bed and fled without knowing where to go . . . All had heard the noise and some of them the voice without gathering the meaning of the words...
...Teresa of Avila, they had to be held down by main force. Bodies that should have been moldering in the grave were exhumed fresh and fragrant; sometimes they bled, as did that of St. John of the Cross when they cut off its finger. The Host at Mass once leapt by itself into the mouth of St. Catherine of Siena...
...made our way back to the dressing room we leapt in the air joyfully imitating the dancers...
Empathy. In Fort Worth, a three-day jail term for contempt was added to Ferrell Conlin's lengthy record of arrests on drunk charges when, as an excited spectator at a murder trial, he leapt to his feet and shouted: "Give him 15, judge, 15 years...
...consecrated ground, a strange funeral ceremony took place. Beside the heaped-up wood of a funeral pyre, a Christian read prayers. Then a Hindu lit the dry wood, and the flames leapt up around the body of Denis Doyle, who had died confident that he-and all men -would be happier without a body...