Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. From LearnThat.org. [Shakespeare, Source: Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II]
Pegasus, and no male shall ever bestride him again. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
But he did not bestride any rough-coated half-pony. From Wordnik.com. [Here Abide Monsters]
No mortal animal would permit such a devil to bestride it. From Wordnik.com. [The Swordbearer]
All day long they bestride them with a courage never equalled. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
Mr. Clarke had the honour to bestride the loins of Bronzomarte. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
And a friend I had who loved me to bestride each horse's back. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
It had been a long time since Piemur had been bestride a runner. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon Drums]
However, no creature will ever bestride me, least of all a human. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
Or we see him bestride an indifferent nag, cantering down the Appian. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
His favorite gray was there, and he pined to bestride him once more. From Wordnik.com. [The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid]
( "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/like a Colossus ...."). From Wordnik.com. [Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon] Reference
The simple elf when primed with wine doth the waning rainbow bestride. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But every child that could bestride a horse was mounted independently. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
As for that, said Gareth, I shall not fail you an I may bestride mine horse. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
To open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second only. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
As for the horses and velvet which I used to bestride, happy should I now be could. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
He is one man that has bestride the political corridor like a colosus without base. From Wordnik.com. [Hadassah Lieberman under attack over industry ties] Reference
I move, I have the power of movement, I command movement of the live thing I bestride. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 36] Reference
The way the last superpower chooses to bestride the world brings with it hard consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Asghar: Shrinking War-Heads: Could Hawks Use a Good Psychologist?] Reference
They did bestride the earth contemporaneously, but were little connected one with the other. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
With what exultation does he bestride the Himalayas to watch the convulsions which he causes!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
“Nay,” answered he, “I will leave my horse with thee and bestride his shoulders myself.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Nobody rode at the Hall, and she longed to bestride a pony and dash off for a twenty-mile canter. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
Sir Cyril Smith, who has died at the age of 82, did not bestride British politics like a colossus. From Wordnik.com. [British schools chief Michael Gove gets his sums wrong] Reference
Surrey meet, and where the railways still bestride the marketgardens that will soon die under them. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
The paper of record for the world's only superpower, for the greatest force ever to bestride the planet?. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Needs A Times-Out] Reference
You have only lately honored one, the old pact that made a fortress rise up again to bestride the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [The Lioness]
They were forced to bestride sharp peaks and leap over chasms so deep that they did not dare to look down them. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Castaways] Reference
Rather than bestride his customary mule, he chose to mount a white horse, and had told his men that he would do so. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Dotes and Tharpe have gone underground because they expect you to bestride your white horse and charge Chodo Contague. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Brass Shadows]
Thus, we suppose, he could bestride his dramatic camel, his poetic camel, or his theological camel as the mood took him. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
She caught hold of the tail and climbed up to the top, where the ridge-back widened so that she could bestride it comfortably. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
She reminded him a little of the way she had looked when they had been lovers, before the Bridge had come to bestride his bed instead. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
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