bestridden

Never have so many human mastodons bestridden the earth as now.

Our Big Problem 2010

I am already thinking about possible research subjects, though the question cannot really arise for several years yet, as I should very much like to feel that I have done some work by the time I leave academia behind, and also because I want to cock a snook at that absurd fellow who has bestridden the field for forty years like a pinchbeck colossus.

To do superversive 2007

She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the Seaman continued: — But when I had bestridden the plank, quoth I to myself, Thou deservest all that betideth thee.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

And I stood there but a little while before there came up a black slave, leading an ass bestridden by a damsel; and under her were housings set with gems and pearls and upon her were the richest of clothes, richness can go no farther; and I saw that she was elegant of make with languorous look and graceful mien.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Edward White said it well in the Dictionary of American Biography: in Pound one confronts the paradox of a scholar who for a time can be said to have bestridden his profession like a colossus but who was so disinclined to probe beyond a certain point that one cannot find much of enduring value in his work. . .

Archive 2008-09-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid of Father Elysee.

Les Miserables 2008

Edward White said it well in the Dictionary of American Biography: in Pound one confronts the paradox of a scholar who for a time can be said to have bestridden his profession like a colossus but who was so disinclined to probe beyond a certain point that one cannot find much of enduring value in his work. . .

Roscoe Pound and the Administrative State Dan Ernst 2008

On hearing that, the catamite changed mounts, and, having bestridden my comrade, nearly drove him to distraction with his buttocks and his kisses.

Satyricon 2007

Michael, without rising, turned upon him a countenance somewhat flushed, encircled with the bush of the red whiskers, and bestridden by the spectacles.

The Wrong Box 2004

Here she gave an exclamation of wonder, real or ritual, and looking up at the high garden wall above her, beheld it fantastically bestridden by a somewhat fantastic figure.

The Complete Father Brown 2003