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
Likewise, if I don’t get astride a cayuse mighty soon, I won’t be able to climb onto him at all.
From Shoe-Bar Stratton by Gage, George W.
The eldest son said, ‘Pappy, if you get astride the dog, and look the way he’s looking, you can see what he sees.’
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration
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 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
