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Example sentences for "bestrides"

Lexicographically close words:
bestrew; bestrewed; bestrewn; bestridden; bestride; bestriding; bestrode; bests; besy; besyd
  1. Preparing for a journey northward, Wainamoinen bestrides his magic steed, and galloping over the plains of Kalevala crosses the Blue Sea as if it were land.

  2. Ordinarily, when man, a little lower than the angels, bestrides a Mule unquestionably possessed of the devil, he starts on a basalt road to perdition, safe to arrive.

  3. When the irreclaimable faddist bestrides his foible, give him due latitude.

  4. More eager than any, he rushes direct to his horse, and, having reached, bestrides him at a spring.

  5. I crossed a rude bridge of stones, which bestrides a small hollow or trench; and passing by a large tower, entered through a portal into the enclosed part of the hill.

  6. This bridge bestrides a lane of almost perpendicular rocks, patched with wood, whose summits are here scarcely five yards asunder.

  7. An old-fashioned bridge bestrides the stream, and the stump of a tree offers an inviting seat.

  8. Beyond the church, one of the old town gates, a heavy stone arch, bestrides the street.

  9. I left Winch Bridge and the cascade which it bestrides about three miles from Middleton, unvisited, for I was tired with much rambling.


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