bestrided

Outside, before each room, a tin fireplace for cooking precariously bestrided the veranda rail.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

Passing one very bad spot several yards in length, the heart of one of the party somewhat failed him, so he bestrided the shoulders of a mountaineer; but, when half way, he found himself overhanging a precipice of several hundred feet, with a path of a few inches wide, and the hill man tottering beneath him.

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

At noon when we stopped, the men rolled up a barrel of pork on to the deck and one of them, named Cheek bestrided with a tomahawk, crying out "give the word Captain."

Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans 1846

A pair of dark-rimmed spectacles bestrided her forehead midway, appearing more for ornament than use.

Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Caroline Lee Hentz 1828

But after we had retired to rest and were sound alseep, my two sisters arose and took me up, bed and all, and threw me into the sea: they did the same with the young Prince who, as he could not swim, sank and was drowned and Allah enrolled him in the noble army of Martyrs. 323 As for me would Heaven I had been drowned with him, but Allah deemed that I should be of the saved; so when I awoke and found myself in the sea and saw the ship making off like a dash of lightning, He threw in my way a piece of timber which I bestrided, and the waves tossed me to and fro till they cast me upon an island coast, a high land and an uninhabited.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Quixote’s horse; — in all other points, the parson’s horse, I say, was just such another, for he was as lean, and as lank, and as sorry a jade, as Humility herself could have bestrided.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Quixote’s horse; — in all other points, the parson’s horse, I say, was just such another, for he was as lean, and as lank, and as sorry a jade, as Humility herself could have bestrided.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

After waiting impatiently for the full moon, Gilbert at last went out one night to work the charm, and to his great delight, had no sooner bestrided the ragwort, and said: "Up!

Up! Horsie! An Original Fairy Tale Clara de Chatelaine