LONG JUMP • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Long jump

... frog, 'A little child, a limber elf,' With health and spirits all agog, He does the long jump in a bog Or teaches men to swim and dive. If he should be cut up alive, Should I not be ...

— The Scarlet Gown - being verses by a St. Andrews Man • R. F. Murray

... every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild goose) starts up, and away I go. And then, again, to be plain, I shirk the work of the critical part, shirk it as a man shirks a long jump. It is awful to have to express and differentiate Burns in a column or two. O golly, I say, you know, it can't be done at the money. All the more as I'm going to write a book about it. Ramsay, Fergusson, and Burns: an Essay (or a critical essay? ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson