Example Sentences

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James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime British Prime Minister, said last week: "I have never bestridden a bicycle because I have no balance of that sort."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then at the fourth opening, the pale horse, bestridden by Death, went mournfully abroad.

From The Thread of Gold by Benson, Arthur Christopher

At the same time Cully places himself beside that bestridden by Roblez.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

But the spirit of Romance and Christendom, the spirit which is in every lover, the spirit which has bestridden the earth with European adventure, is quite opposite.

From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Methinks I have bestridden something that hath galled me extensively.

From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Standish, Burt L.