"Leaper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... iron-barred opening through which came light and air, for any purposes of escape it might as well not have been there, for its lower edge was nearly fourteen feet from the ground; and although Paco, who was a first-rate leaper, did, in his desperation, and in the early days of his captivity, make several violent attempts to jump up and catch hold of the grating, they were all, as may be supposed, entirely ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various |
