At the very moment when Cranston began his daring lunge, the green tongues gave a rapid leap that reached a beaker standing on a higher shelf.

Onstage, Mr. Maal was flanked by two male dancers, who now and then exploded into rapid leaps and kicks.

But what was so absorbing to Melville himself - the will to understanding that he felt working itself out in him in rapid, self-revising leaps - is harder to document and gets less play.

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Runner, named for the runner, an amberfish inhabiting subtropical waters, so called for its rapid leaps from the water.

The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

The primary reason for the rapid leap from 56,000 to 64,000 articles was an automated bot which created stub articles on more than 8,000 municipalities of Spain in an operation dubbed "Comuni spagnoli".

The display consists of rapid leaps between sticks and the ground, accompanied by a loud wing snap, the whirring of the wings, and a chee-poo call.

Nevertheless, her heart made a rapid leap before it subsided into a steady hammering.

Using their long forelimbs for leverage, they would have vaulted themselves into the air in a rapid leap.

Too rapid a leap to privatization could undermine the managers of state enterprises and collective farms who ran the old Communist economy and whose support is essential if reforms are to succeed.