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Definition of Bestrides
1. bestride [v] - See also: bestride
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestrides
Literary usage of Bestrides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... A fourth bestrides his fellow, thinking to 'scape Still fumbling on a gittern.
The rude multitude, (As did Arion) on the dolphin's back, Cast from the ..."
2. A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1821)
"One more despatch from hence — and then for traversing the bridge which bestrides
the rapid Rhine? PS Among the duplicates in the Public Library which ought ..."
3. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Pallas, of her snaky buckler proud, bestrides the tow'r, refulgent thru' the My
mother stood reveal'd before my heav'nly bright, 8» f sight. ..."
4. The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith (1818)
"... to vulgar eyes, bestrides the state; Yet, when he deigns his real shape t'
assume, He turns old woman, and bestrides a broom. ..."
5. The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith, Robert Aris Willmott, Henry Noel Humphreys (1859)
"Yon politician, famous in debate, Perhaps, to vulgar eyes, bestrides the state;
Yet, when he deigns his real shape to assume, lie turns old woman, ..."
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