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

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 Davies, Charles Maurice

How Helen longed to put on her riding clothes and get astride a lively mount and gallop up the park-way!

From The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City by Marlowe, Amy Bell

I made shift to get astride the horse, to prick the poor beast with the point of sword, and so to break away in some brief dash beneath the oaks.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

He rested for a time and then gave himself another hoist and was able to get astride the bowsprit.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman