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Example sentences for "bestridden"

Lexicographically close words:
bestowments; bestows; bestrew; bestrewed; bestrewn; bestride; bestrides; bestriding; bestrode; bests
  1. Meanwhile Menelaus son of Atreus has bestridden the body of Patroclus and killed the noblest of the Trojans, Euphorbus son of Panthous, so that he can fight no more.

  2. The horse I was on, had only stopped three lengths of itself, from the place where I had bestridden him, when something caused him to shy to one side, and break into a gallop.

  3. While the hunter is speaking, the horse bestridden by the dead body, and the old mare, place their snouts in contact--then withdraw them with a sniff of recognition.

  4. The two horses are tandem-harnessed, the wheeler bestridden by a rider with a thong in hand, the leader turning sharply round.

  5. Jeanne,” said he, “thou hast never bestridden a charger, thou canst not bear a lance!

  6. Many a time and oft have I bestridden horses that had been peacefully pasturing, and ridden them bare-back around the fields, in a kind of Buffalo Bill style, you know.

  7. There is none of that offensive subserviency which so jars upon one in most of the monarchy and aristocracy bestridden lands.

  8. Stockholm is full of young officers in natty uniforms, who strut along the streets aping the braggart insolence one meets among the soldier-bestridden Germans.

  9. After him came the camel, all over tassels and gold net, bestridden by Kelly Eyre, wearing a costume seldom seen anywhere, and never in the Sahara.

  10. I should like to ride with you, Edgar, but it is years since I have bestridden a horse.

  11. Tis so many years since he has bestridden a horse that he said that he should be ill at ease riding with such a party, and that he would therefore go on quietly, with Hal walking beside him, and would join us when we came to Hoo.


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