Never have so many human mastodons bestridden the earth as now. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I am already thinking about possible research subjects, though the question cannot really arise for several years yet, as I should very much like to feel that I have done some work by the time I leave academia behind, and also because I want to cock a snook at that absurd fellow who has bestridden the field for forty years like a pinchbeck colossus. ❋ Superversive (2007)
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the Seaman continued: — But when I had bestridden the plank, quoth I to myself, Thou deservest all that betideth thee. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And I stood there but a little while before there came up a black slave, leading an ass bestridden by a damsel; and under her were housings set with gems and pearls and upon her were the richest of clothes, richness can go no farther; and I saw that she was elegant of make with languorous look and graceful mien. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Edward White said it well in the Dictionary of American Biography: in Pound one confronts the paradox of a scholar who for a time can be said to have bestridden his profession like a colossus but who was so disinclined to probe beyond a certain point that one cannot find much of enduring value in his work. . . ❋ Mary L. Dudziak (2008)
It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid of Father Elysee. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On hearing that, the catamite changed mounts, and, having bestridden my comrade, nearly drove him to distraction with his buttocks and his kisses. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Michael, without rising, turned upon him a countenance somewhat flushed, encircled with the bush of the red whiskers, and bestridden by the spectacles. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Here she gave an exclamation of wonder, real or ritual, and looking up at the high garden wall above her, beheld it fantastically bestridden by a somewhat fantastic figure. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And I well deserve it; have I not bestridden a beetle to save the Greeks, who now, thanks to me, can make love at their ease and sleep peacefully on their farms? ❋ Unknown (2000)
A moment afterwards and the ferryman and cortège arrived together; and a more glorious figure of fun than the chaplain of the heretic general hath seldom bestridden a pacing nag! ❋ Various (N/A)
He learns one side of his donkey by heart, and never thinks of looking at the other; consequently, when he sees the hitherto unknown side of the animal, he is inclined to think that some wight has been playing a practical joke, and substituted a different beast for the one he has bestridden. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Doctor, on his handsome, long-bodied Arabian mare, was making good work of it across the plains, when he heard the rush of a horse's feet behind him, and turning, he saw tall Widderin bestridden by Sam, springing over the turf, gaining on him stride after stride. ❋ Desmond Byrne (N/A)
TRYGAEUS And I well deserve it; have I not bestridden a beetle to save the Greeks, who now, thanks to me, can make love at their ease and sleep peacefully on their farms? ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
There was Enriquez bolt upright in the stirrups, completely overshadowing by his saddle-flaps, leggings, and gigantic spurs the fine proportions of Chu Chu, until she might have been a placid Rosinante, [149-2] bestridden by some youthful Quixote. ❋ Various (N/A)
At his heels, and mounted upon the steed so lately bestridden by Braxley, the very animal, which, notwithstanding its uncommon swimming virtues, had left its master, ❋ Robert M. Bird (N/A)
