Lines like those in Chaucer's Sir Thopas, And so bifel upon a day, Forsothe as I you telle may Sir Thopas wolde outride, and The briddes synge, it is no nay, The sparhauke and the papejay may easily be paralleled by passages containing references to source.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
His profound legal acquirements-ardent zeal-equal justice-vigorous energy and noble patriotism-enabled him to outride every storm and calm the raging billows that often threatened to overwhelm him.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
"So slight and so fragile is the little oval cup that it is astonishing the mere weight of the parent bird does not bring it to the ground, and yet within it three young ones will often safely outride a gale that will bring the weightier nests of Jays and Thrushes to the ground.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume