The fisherman takes two large gourds, which he connects by a bamboo of sufficient length to allow him to sit astraddle between them.
They were dark, dirty and tousled, clad in draggled greys or vermilions, many carrying brown babies astraddleon the hip.
Then standing astraddle in the precipitous street he began to pluck at the strings as though the guitar could answer for him.
Till a sudden wave of might Set me once again astraddle On the seat of saving flight, Plucked from very jaws of night-- Boot and saddle!
She had gone away, Timbo said, to feed, or otherwise we should probably have found her sitting, as the flamingoes do, with her legsastraddle above it.
Place the extended and separated fingers rapidly with a slapping sound astraddle the extended fore and second fingers of the left hand.
Place the extended and separated index and second fingers of the right hand astraddle the extended forefinger of the left hand.
Another: Place the extended and separated index and second fingers astraddle the extended and horizontal forefinger of the left hand.
Place the index and middle finger of the right hand astraddle the index finger of the left.
Place the extended and separated index and second fingers of the right hand astraddle of the extended forefinger of the left.
The index and second fingers of the right hand are placed astraddle the extended forefinger of the left.
Then she threw me on my back and, mounting astraddle on my breast, fell a wriggling and a bucking upon me till she had uncovered my yard.
When the girl saw me in the vestibule, she came up to me and strained me to her bosom, and threw me to the floor; then she sat astraddle upon my breast and kneaded my belly with her fingers, till I well nigh lost my senses.
It was at the Springplace bar, an' Alf Moreland struck me a whack across the face with his whip, an' bein' astraddleof a fine nag he made off.
Well, go unhitch an' git astraddle of yore animal.
FN#615] Our nurses always carry in the arms: Arabs place the children astraddle upon the hip and when older on the shoulder.
Halfway across, I got to a bowed-up place where I had to get down astraddle of the log and slide myself along.
With Mama's help, we got the sagging gate dragged open just in time for Old Dale to come jogging through, with Wiley astraddle of his back.
And Mister Ward was astraddle of him, beating his head with both fists!
Her driver went astraddle of it and stuck there like a clothes-pin on a line.
The antagonists in the strange duello sat back to back, astraddle a seat.
I'll give you five minutes to stop circusin' and get your tub astraddle that reservoir," snapped the referee.
But pretty soon he struggled up astraddle and grabbed the bridle, a-reeling this way and that; and the next minute he sprung up and dropped the bridle and stood!
We were firing at the flying foe--astraddle of their lines of battle.
XXVI Meanwhile, Lamme and he were riding along well astraddle upon their asses.
He walked thus with Lamme, who stayedastraddle on his ass, while Ulenspiegel held his by the halter.
Down the middle a line of benches had been drawn up, on which there were seated astraddle the whole hundred of the baronet's musqueteers, each engaged in plaiting into a queue the hair of the man who sat in front of him.
Then she threw me on my back and, mounting astraddle on my breast, fell a-wriggling and a-bucking upon me till she had uncovered my yard.
When the girl saw me in the vestibule, she came up to me and strained me to her bosom, and threw me to the floor; then she sat astraddle upon my breast and kneaded my belly with her fingers, till I well-nigh lost my senses.
Footnote 615: Our nurses always carry in the arms: Arabs place the children astraddle upon the hip and when older on the shoulder.
Footnote 405: This is the custom with such gentry, who, when they see a likely man sitting, are allowed by custom to ride astraddle upon his knees with most suggestive movements, till he buys them off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "astraddle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: across; horseback; straddle
