1 An instant later he leaped at her, as she lay groveling at his feet.
2 Jurgis stood stricken dumb, and his heart gave a leap like a mad thing.
3 He still kept his eyes fixed ahead, and did not stir; but his heart gave a great leap.
4 Then suddenly the big butcher president leaped upon a pile of stones and yelled: "It's off, boys."
5 He was looking her fairly in the face, and he could read the sudden fear and wild uncertainty that leaped into her eyes.
6 Also he had always the progress to encourage him; here in Chicago, for instance, the movement was growing by leaps and bounds.
7 Jurgis seized a bottle off the counter as he ran; and as the bartender made a leap he hurled the missile at him with all his force.
8 He was only a couple of feet behind, and he leaped to stop the man's mouth, while Duane held him fast by the arms, as they had agreed.
9 He had some of his breath back when the car came to the entrance of the yards, and so he leaped off and started again, racing at full speed.
10 This called for punishment, of course; and the police proceeded to administer it by leaping from the truck and cracking at every head they saw.
11 He stood and watched it; and all at once a wild impulse seized him, a thought that had been lurking within him, unspoken, unrecognized, leaped into sudden life.
12 The company takes up the choruses, and men and women cry out like all possessed; some leap to their feet and stamp upon the floor, lifting their glasses and pledging each other.
13 Out of regions of wonder it streamed, the very river of life; and the soul leaped up at the sight of it, fled back upon it, swift and resistless, back into far-off lands, where beauty and terror dwell.
14 Now and then one leaps up with a cry and calls for this song or that; and then the fire leaps brighter in Tamoszius' eyes, and he flings up his fiddle and shouts to his companions, and away they go in mad career.
15 The others leaped a fence in the rear, balking the second policeman, who was fat; and as he came back, furious and cursing, a big Polish woman, the owner of the saloon, rushed in screaming, and received a poke in the stomach that doubled her up on the floor.
16 A torrent of sparks swept all the way across the building, overwhelming everything, hiding it from sight; and then Jurgis looked through the fingers of his hands, and saw pouring out of the caldron a cascade of living, leaping fire, white with a whiteness not of earth, scorching the eyeballs.