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After making their exit from Europe's top competition, then losing to Chelsea in the Premier League and seeing their local rivals briefly o'erleap them in the table on Sunday afternoon, City responded by hauling themselves back into the top spot.

Manchester City grind any doubts about their resolve into the dust | Richard Williams 2011

Ye locusts that o'erleap my fence, oh let my vines escape

Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus

And only when he turneth away from himself will he o'erleap his own shadow-and verily! into his sun.

Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

Pashants and Younes and prudenc had to quickly come down from their unlawfully high church-perch and take a more humble seat, as befitted them; thus did their "vaulting ambition o'erleap itself and fall on the other side."

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

And only when he turneth away from himself will he o'erleap his own shadow -- and verily! into HIS sun.

Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

"Vaulting ambition, that _o'erleaps_ itself," is nonsense -- the thing is impossible; and proposes that "vaulting ambition" should "rest his hand upon the pommel, and _o'erleap_ the saddle (sell)," a thing not uncommon in the feats of horsemanship.

Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

Did MR. SINGLETON never _o'erleap_ himself, and be too late -- later than

Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

William was now quite unable to contain himself, and seemed utterly to have forgotten the grievous charge against him; to such a pitch did his joy o'erleap his jeopardy.

Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819

There were no other way for Truth to o'erleap them, [fe]

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

My love is criminal, but 'tis also heroic, and dares o'erleap the boundaries of rank, and soar towards the dazzling sun of majesty.

Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782