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

I've little enough gratitude and quite enough scheming to get astride of your shoulders.

From Modeste Mignon by Balzac, Honoré de

In the first place they may come in useful to us yet, and even if we never get astride of them again they may come in mighty handy for food.

From In the Heart of the Rockies by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

We floundered about like porpoises, but managed to get astride her backbone, when dad looked kind of scornfully at me, and burst out with, 'Sonny, do you call yourself a keerful sailor?'

From Voyage of the Paper Canoe; a geographical journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5 by Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)

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