Strid

This place was then, as it now is, called the Strid, from a feat often exercised by persons of more agility than prudence, who stride from brink to brink, regardless of the destruction which awaits a faltering step.

A Book for the Young Sarah French

Strid-ing forward into the liquid, he watched it slide over the tip of his boot.

Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

The Strid of Wordsworth was bounded by the slaty banks of the "Crystal Wharf," and the Strid of Wilson, in his best moments, was as large as the valley of Glencoe.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

At the Strid the river, except in flood-times, is confined to a deep channel through the rocks, in places scarcely more than a yard in width.

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

[Illustration: "_The foaming cauldron of the Strid_"]

Set in Silver 1901

I was almost sorry that we were to go on and see Harrogate and the Strid and Bolton Abbey, because in my restlessness I didn't feel intelligent enough to appreciate anything.

Set in Silver 1901

Niddersdale and Ilkley to Pately Bridge, where we had to get out and walk through enchanted woods to the foaming cauldron of the Strid.

Set in Silver 1901

Skipton will forgive an injury when the Strid lets a man live; but a

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

Yesterday I walked to Bolton Abbey, the Strid, etc., and back, which is a matter of sixteen miles, without being particularly tired, though the afternoon sun was as hot as midsummer.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

I stopped here to see the Strid again -- not seen these many years.

Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston John Ruskin 1859