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

The Eleventh, under General Erdelli, was to act along an 11-mile front from a point north-west of Tarnopol, and to get astride the railway which leads from Tarnopol through Zloczow to Lemberg.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

I see you are growing weary, so I will not detain you with any more of my luckless attempts to get astride of Pegasus.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

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 Sabatini, Rafael

Then seeing a fine large butterfly on a dandelion close by, he climbed up and managed to get astride it.

From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur