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Definition of Bestriding
1. bestride [v] - See also: bestride
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestriding
Literary usage of Bestriding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1841)
"It is needless to say that the new London Bridge, bestriding the broad river with
its five vast elliptical arches, is a far more magnificent, ..."
2. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"As men that spied the wings, that heard the snort, Their sires have told; and of
a martial prince bestriding him ; and old report 31 Speaks of a monster ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"It therefore happened that much at the same moment, Neddy Blossom was triumphantly
bestriding the prostrate man, and the female was triumphantly bestriding ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"In any other country these would be considered as just the seasons of the year,
and the time of the day, when these ditch-bestriding ..."
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