Astride

Astride of our surfboards, or, rather, flat down upon them on our stomachs, we paddled out through the kindergarten where the little Kanaka boys were at play.

Jack London:Surfing in Hawaii 2010

Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces 'crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets.

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley: Book summary 2010

Astride a horse, right hand on his hip, Washington looks confident and proud that his army of 2,400 men with 18 artillery pieces has almost completed the crossing of the treacherous ice-choked Delaware River from Philadelphia, and will soon be fully assembled on the New Jersey shore.

Washington's Crossing as Docudrama Patrick J. Walsh 2011

Astride the horse's back sat Cassidy, dressed in silver leather,

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

Astride the toilet, you open it to an earmarked page and run a fingernail down to a paragraph that had once inspired vague suspicion, but now settles like a granite monument:

Assumption 2010

Astride Valorous, dressed only in a cloak and a muddy tunic for the long road, Bayard led us free of the marshes.

Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

Astride her white horse, she would fight and save France,

Where Did the Goofy Hairdos Go? 2010

Astride a brightly painted lion, a woman in a long coat sat sidesaddle.

Dark Oracle Alayna Williams 2010

Astride this steed was a mullett-sporting middle aged gentleman in fantasticly new white leather high-tops.

Pull My Strings: The New Puppetry BikeSnobNYC 2010

Astride in the boat amidst the seated mariners, General Washington made an easy target.

THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009