get astride
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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
Brought my heart into my mouth to see the big devil raging, and I began to yearn to get astride him and to—well, just fight to see which of us would come out on top.
From Trailin'! by Max Brand
Almost as soon the two officers get astride, Roblez on his own charger, the mustang mare being left to Uraga.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
The Eleventh, under General Erdelli, was to act along an 11-mile front from a point north-west of Tarnopol, and to get astride the railway which leads from Tarnopol through Zloczow to Lemberg.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
I was so deeply impressed by this phantasmagorical marching past that I almost expected to see Death go up behind a gunner or get astride a cannon.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
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