Another has a toprail of a whole tree, so broad and thick no one can possibly straddle it, so some friend of humanity has broken the second rail, and you creep under.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
By using two horses we straddle the ridge, and save tramping it where our plants are to go.
"The Cauliflower"
A. A. Crozier
He had reached the fireplace, and wheeled round on her, his back to the hearth and his legs a-straddle.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch