get astride

Example Sentences

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Advancing rapidly, they entered the capital's suburbs, prepared to cross the Han River and get astride the communications to the south and the rear of the enemy's army around the Pusan perimeter.

From Time Magazine Archive

He rested for a time and then gave himself another hoist and was able to get astride the bowsprit.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman

Once we had reached the far side we set out to pick our way round Kirkuk to get astride the road leading thence to Altun Kupri.

From War in the Garden of Eden by Roosevelt, Kermit

I see you are growing weary, so I will not detain you with any more of my luckless attempts to get astride of Pegasus.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

I made shift to get astride the horse, to prick the poor beast with the point of sword, and so to break away in some brief dash beneath the oaks.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis