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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



... answer, but beckoning Hugh, leaped into the saddle and rode away; and a very stalwart, manly horseman he looked, deserving a better charger than it was his fortune to bestride. John stood staring after him, or rather after the grey mare (for he had no eyes for her rider), until man and beast had been out of sight some twenty minutes, when he began to think they were gone, and slowly re-entering the house, fell into a ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens
... quilts, does it not seem impertinent to leave these ginger-bread figures winking and tinkling to the stars and the rolling moon? The gargoyles may fitly enough twist their ape-like heads; fitly enough may the potentate bestride his charger, like a centurion in an old German print of the Via Dolorosa; but the toys should be put away in a box among some cotton, until the sun rises, and the children are ...
— An Inland Voyage • Robert Louis Stevenson
... he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... Whilst low to earth thy curving haunches bend, Thy sweepy tail involv'd in clouds of sand; Erect in air thou rear'st thy front of pride, And ring'st the plated harness on thy side. But, lo! what creature, goodly to the sight, Dares thus bestride thee, chaffing in thy might? Of portly stature, and determin'd mien? Whose dark eye dwells beneath a brow serene? And forward looks unmov'd to fields of death: And smiling, gently strokes thee in thy wrath? Whose brandish'd ...
— Poems, &c. (1790) • Joanna Baillie
... mode of progression than the animal's neck. A very slight study of the human anatomy would satisfy the most exacting that nature never intended youths of fifteen or sixteen to strain their muscles after the fashion of acrobats, so as to enable them to bestride an elephant's spine." ...
— Glyn Severn's Schooldays • George Manville Fenn


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