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Definition of Bestridden
1. bestride [v] - See also: bestride
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestridden
Literary usage of Bestridden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1893)
"Every inch a racehorse does he appear, and a shapely and gentlemanly animal too.
He is bestridden by a very fair representation of T. Loates. ..."
2. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"Sure, such a horse for slipping from under one was never bestridden by man." "
Good Heavens, Reuben !" I cried in amazement, " what brings you all this way ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... like some wild beast, hesitating He turn'd, yet oft wheel'd back, and short
the space Twixt knee and knee bestridden. As when hounds And peasant hunters ..."
4. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"... peared to be somewhere in the remote neighborhood of a thousand of them,) were
bestridden by gallant looking fellows, also in stylish uniforms, ..."
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