In her eyes I saw the eyes of Igar when I was Ushu the archer, the eyes of Arunga when I was the rice-harvester, the eyes of Selpa when I dreamed of bestriding the stallion, the eyes of Nuhila who leaned to the thrust of my sword.
Along this valley I meet a Turk and his wife bestriding the same diminutive donkey, the woman riding in front and steering their long-eared craft by the terror of her tongue in lieu of a bridle.
And the youngster amused himself all day long by bestriding chairs, dragging them round the room and shouting: "This is daddy on horseback!
When its full strength would seem to be taxed, the lazy owner often adds his own weight by bestriding the animal, sitting far back upon its hips.
Bestriding a handsome bay horse, his father's latest gift, he rode down to Nestleton Forge, and arrived just in time to hear the final strophes of Blithe Natty's latest anvil song.
When I was first introduced to her "behind the scenes," she was bestriding a chair, and smoking a pink cigarette, and she addressed me as mon petit.
Before them rides a regular Thames miner, bestriding a lean and weedy horse of very poor description.
A few are even bestriding bullocks, judging, probably, that in the general scrimmage and stampede, even those ungainly steeds will distance men on foot.
Presently I came to a bridge bestriding the stream, which a man told me was called Pont Aber Glâs Lyn, or the bridge of the debouchement of the grey lake.
Three are on horseback, the fourth bestriding a mule.
By its magnifying effect the horses, as their riders, appear of gigantic dimensions; the former seeming Mastodons, the latter Titans bestriding them!
Not till then does he perceive that the men before him are in civilised costume, and that but one is on horseback, the other bestriding a mule.
He made no reply, bestriding a chair and galloping round the table on it.
I won't suppose you to be disgracing yourself in one of those miserable tubs, tugging in which is to rowing the true boat what riding a cow is to bestriding an Arab.
Then, Pierre and he bestriding the branch, Maître Rigoux took it by the butt and drew it up chimney as if the wind had lifted them.
According to some of the Scotch stories, the witch, after bestriding her broomsticks must repeat the magic formula, Horse and Hattork!
This last is a sort of ragged merryandrew, wearing a rusty old sword and bestriding a sorry hack.
At Amoy the spirits who serve babies and children in this way rejoice in the high-sounding titles of "celestial agencies bestridinggalloping horses" and "literary graduates residing halfway up in the sky.
We met on the road small sleds, drawn by a steer, sometimes by a cow, on which a bag of grist was being hauled to the mill, and boys mounted on steers gave us good-evening with as much pride as if they were bestriding fiery horses.
A woman bestriding a palfrey rode gaily by the side of a man conspicuous in dark velvet.
A picturesque, noticeable figure in his quaint, half-Spanish dress and his silver-decorated sombrero, bestriding the heavy Mexican saddle upon his powerful horse.
He smiled at thought of his own long legs bestriding the low back of the donkey, but a memory of that heated trail down which he must pass to reach the nearest house, decided the matter.
The first time the child mounts the colt, he should say, while in the act of bestriding him: "Glory to Him who has subjected the horse to us!
There are still a half-score of the water-horses attached, but now in tow astern, and with no one bestriding them.
The two bestriding fresh horses need not have much feared the black-maned brute, and for that matter could have avoided an encounter with it by riding wide away and around.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bestriding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
