Example Sentences

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His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm crested the world; his voice was propertied ... as all the tuned spheres.

From Time Magazine Archive

That horse, that thou so often hast bestrid; That horse, that I so carefully have dress'd!

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Neuer bestrid a Horse saue one, that had A Rider like my selfe, who ne're wore Rowell, Nor Iron on his heele?

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

These Warriours on a sort of Coursers rid, Ne’r log’d in Stables, or by Man bestrid.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore

He knows the pedigree of every horse on the place, and has bestrid the great-great-grandsires of most of them.

From Bracebridge Hall by Irving, Washington