Never have so many human mastodons bestridden the earth as now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Big Problem] Reference

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?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick of the Woods] Reference

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?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace] Reference

Meanwhile Menelaus son of Atreus has bestridden the body of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer] Reference

At the same time Cully places himself beside that bestridden by Roblez.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Ranche] Reference

There loomed, at thirty feet away, colossal beasts bestridden by giants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Roll] Reference

How can you tilt in plate armour, you who have never bestridden a charger?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Herd Boy and His Hermit] Reference

Not a creature was within call, and those dreaded fissures had to be bestridden.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roof of France] Reference

"I should like to ride with you, Edgar, but it is years since I have bestridden a horse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A March on London] Reference

'Terror hath bestridden our realm of England; no man dares to whisper his hate even to the rushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Privy Seal His Last Venture] Reference

Alexander was only 33 when he died in 323 BC, having in that short time bestridden the ancient world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Meanwhile Menelaus son of Atreus has bestridden the body of Patroclus and killed the noblest of the Trojans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

She may have bestridden the global stage in the 1980s but, despite advancing years, the fame is irreducible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

He was in swell society on the occasion of our first meeting, being bestridden by the colonel of the regiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier] Reference

Trojans, disperse those who had bestridden Patroclus and were most bent on winning glory by dragging him off to their city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

"Do you think that I would let a cursed Frenchman -- ay, even William's self -- say that he had bestridden Hereward's mare?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference

While so employed, he could not help reflecting that the nag was just a trifle too good to be bestridden by a secret police-agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Wrath] Reference

Byram came in to rehearse the opening processional and to rebuke his dearest foe, the unspeakable "camuel," bestridden by Mrs. Horan as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

Actually, in a hemisphere bestridden by the crass worship of comfort and ease, here is a man whose ideal is to write essays in resounding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shandygaff] Reference

For in the dark of the morning, when he had bestridden his donkey and given the order for his caravan to march, he was hailed by Luttrell's voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Summons] Reference

The monarchs of cash, arbiters of wealth, supposed founts of all wisdom, have bestridden Europe and the United States, humbling all in their path.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

After him came the camel, all over tassels and gold net, bestridden by Kelly Eyre, wearing a costume seldom seen anywhere, and never in the Sahara.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

A mule, with a bunch of lighted firecrackers tied to his tail, and bestridden by two clowns who belonged to the class of 1900, suddenly burst into the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919] Reference

The horse of the man who had been shot stood still for a moment, and in that moment the rustler who remained standing gave one leap and had bestridden him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Free Range] Reference

The presence of a ship's topsail-yard thus bestridden plainly proclaimed that a ship had been wrecked -- although no other evidence of the wreck was within sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Slaves] Reference

But the spirit of Romance and Christendom, the spirit which is in every lover, the spirit which has bestridden the earth with European adventure, is quite opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heretics] Reference

Hast thou bestridden the enchanted horse, or wert thou bidden to a witch-feast? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

A man-bestridden dragon fly!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toward the Gulf] Reference

The latter is bestridden by Uraga.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Ranche] Reference