astraddle

The players will still be running around astraddle brooms, still pinning their hopes of victory on grabbing a yellow-hued ball — inexplicably, unless “Harry Potter” explains it.

Chateaus astraddle vertiginous, cave-pocked limestone cliffs attempted to outdo one another in the beauty and extent of their gardens.

It was directly below the boy who sat astraddle of the projecting log, and a little farther downstream.

One of the boys, named Gene, big-limbed, loose-jointed and clumsy, in doing his turn, and while astraddle the “frog,” lost his balance and tumbled sideways, dragging the under boy over with him.

Having careered, plunging and tugging and side-stepping, until she was astraddle of the outside trace, Jenny stopped.