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Bestride  v. t.  (past bestrode, obs. or rare bestrid; past part. bestridden; pres. part. bestriding)  
1.
To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over "That horse that thou so often hast bestrid." "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus."
2.
To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.





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"Bestride" Quotes from Famous Books



... knowing what was required of her, she turned to Alessandro, the chief executioner, and asked what she was to do; he told her to bestride the plank and lie prone upon it; which she did with great trouble and timidity; but as she was unable, on account of the fullness of her bust, to lay her neck upon the block, this had to be raised by placing a billet of wood underneath it; all this time the poor woman, suffering ...
— The Cenci - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... iron steed thus attired, surely they might be permitted to bestride a horse in like manner clothed, ...
— A Girl's Ride in Iceland • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
... her loneliness, grew into many strange ways. She did outride any man in the county, and she had a blue-roan by the name of Robin Hood; which same, methinks, no man in or out o' th' county would 'a' cared to bestride. She would walk over to Pebworth ('piping Pebworth,' as Master Shakespeare hath dubbed it) and back again, a distance o' some six miles; and afterwards set forth for a gallop on Robin Hood, and be no more a-weary, come eventide, ...
— A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales • Amelie Rives
... books Mr. H.G. Wells expresses a surprised annoyance at the spectacle of spurs. Vast numbers of military gentlemen (he observed at the front) go clanking about in spurs although they have never had—and never will have—occasion to bestride a horse. Spurs are a symbolic survival, a waste of steel and of labour in manufacture, a futile expenditure of energy to keep clean and to ...
— Observations of an Orderly - Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital • Ward Muir
... and plenty to this happy valley. It was not, however, destined to be entered by us without a fierce combat for precedence between two of our steeds. The animal whom it was the evil lot of Meliboeus to bestride, suddenly threw back its ears, and darted madly upon the doctor's quadruped, which, on its side, manifested ...
— The Bushman - Life in a New Country • Edward Wilson Landor


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