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Bestride
Bestride Be*stride", v. t. [imp. Bestrode, (Obs. or R.) Bestrid; p. p. Bestridden, Bestrid, Bestrode; p. pr. & vb. n. Bestriding.] [AS. bestr[=i]dan; pref. be- + str[=i]dan to stride.] 1. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. --Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. --Shak. 2. To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

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- you. Hicks, Jim (14 October 1966). "A Poet with a Slide Rule: Piet Hein Bestrides Art and Science". Life. Vol. 51, no. 16. pp. 55–66. ISSN 0024-3019. A...
- instruments among the captured materiel. The Finnish area of Lapland, bestriding the Arctic Circle, is sp****ly developed, with little daylight and persistent...
- C****ius in Julius Caesar (I, ii, 136–38) says of Caesar: Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge...
- University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-521-82093-6. Robert Ousterhout (2005) "'Bestride the Very Peak of Heaven': The Parthenon after Antiquity." In Neils (ed)...
- Ty Burr reacted to Samuel L. Jackson's performance by saying he "... bestrides this film with the authority of someone who knows the value of honest...
- appearance, although she wears what seems to be intended for male attire, and bestrides her steed like the warriors of her train. She is attended by two handmaids...
- energetic, imaginative and capable rulers of the entire Middle Ages, bestriding the European stage like a colossus and p****ing away in the "full glory"...
- According to Nicolas Pioch's comments on the painting: "Only a child can so bestride the world with such ease, and only a childlike artist with a simple, naïve...
- vandalized remains of fasces on all four corners of its plinth. Fasces bestride Speaker's rostrum in the House chamber of the United States Capitol Above...
- "autobiography" by Farouk, depicting him as a towering global statesman bestriding 20th-century history, and an incomparable erotic artiste besides. Nothing...