get astride
Example Sentences
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Advancing rapidly, they entered the capital's suburbs, prepared to cross the Han River and get astride the communications to the south and the rear of the enemy's army around the Pusan perimeter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bo mounted without a helping hand, but Helen's limbs were so stiff that she could not get astride the high Ranger without assistance.
From The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey
But—you'll excuse me, I must ride a notion when I get astride of one—St. Hospital would be no more than what we call an episode.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
That there gentleman," said Mr. Ashman, in a broad provincial dialect, "couldn't get astride that chair when he come here half-an-hour ago.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
From the window of my room I saw the doctor get astride his mule.
From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini
