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
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
I was so deeply impressed by this phantasmagorical marching past that I almost expected to see Death go up behind a gunner or get astride a cannon.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle
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 Ward, Leslie
