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 led it here, and you just ought to have seen the brute dance and make ugly eyes when first Albert and then I tried to get astride of it.
From Lady Betty Across the Water by Orson Lowell
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 Arthur Rackham
Brought my heart into my mouth to see the big devil raging, and I began to yearn to get astride him and to—well, just fight to see which of us would come out on top.
From Trailin'! by Max Brand
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 Francis Lynde
