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
He then gave Mark a stick, saying, "When you have found the plant of life, and want to go home, get astride of this stick; but now get on my back."
From The Two Story Mittens and the Little Play Mittens Being the Fourth Book of the Series by Aunt Fanny
We floundered about like porpoises, but managed to get astride her backbone, when dad looked kind of scornfully at me, and burst out with, 'Sonny, do you call yourself a keerful sailor?'
From Voyage of the Paper Canoe; a geographical journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5 by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop
There were two things he could not and would not do, and they were, to get astride a horse or to walk for the sake of walking.
From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Leslie Ward
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
