| Where I see a politician bestriding the British political scene, he sees a lonely figure, in constant danger of a painstaking alliance fracturing apart. |
| He seemed to bestride it as we could imagine Alexander bestriding his Bucephalus. |
| First came Black Simon with his banner, bestriding a lean and powerful dapple-gray charger, as hard and wiry and warwise as himself. |
| Not that he was a formidable figure bestriding the political scene like a colossus. |
| For more than one reason the somewhat disreputable and incredibly diligent Scots lawyer James Boswell can be called the unique genius of biographical literature, bestriding both autobiography and biography. |
| He made no reply, bestriding a chair and galloping round the table on it. |
