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It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid of Father Elysee.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

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)