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Those words, included in more than 350,000 emails spanning Bush's eight years as governor, will prove prescient if he decides to enter the 2016 presidential contest, one that he has been striding toward since December.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2015

After he has been striding along for a short time with a free, manly gait, he suddenly bethinks himself that he is writing a book.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various