Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Leap

Leap like a cock at a blackberry.
—Anonymous

Leaps, like happy hearts by holiday made light.
—Bernard Barton

Leaped in the air like a shot rabbit.
—R. D. Blackmore

Leaps like a young horse
Who bites against the new bit in his teeth,
And tugs and struggles against the new-tried rein.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Leap such leap
As lands the feet in Heaven.
—Robert Browning

Leapt like a tongue of fire that cleaves the smoke.
—Robert Browning

Leaps like a bared sword.
—Rudyard Kipling

Leap like trout in May.
—Rudyard Kipling

Leaped as if stung by an electric shock.
—George B. McCutcheon

Leapt like a leaping sword.
—Joaquin Miller

Leap away lyke froges.
—John Skelton

Leaped like a roebuck from the plain.
—H. and J. Smith

Leaping like wanton kids in pleasant spring.
—Edmund Spenser

He leaped like a man shot.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

Leap, like moody madness to the changing moon.
—John Struthers

Leaps clear as a flame from the pyres of the dead.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Leaps like fire.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Leap up
As red wine mantling in a royal cup.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Leaps up as the foe’s heart leaps.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Leapt like a passing thought.
—Alfred Tennyson

Leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
—Old Testament

Leapt as lightly as weanling fawns that leap around the doe.
—Theocritus

Leap like a caressing angel.
—N. P. Willis