The one great divine, according to Brown's Estimate, was Warburton, the colossus, he says, who bestrides the world: and Warburton, whatever else he may have been, was certainly of all divines the one whose argument is most palpably fictitious, if not absolutely insincere.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
More eager than any, he rushes direct to his horse, and, having reached, bestrides him at a spring.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
As already said, she bestrides her mustang man-fashion, the mode of Mexico; while a light fowling-piece, suspended en bandouliere, hangs down behind her back.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid