| One of them was tackled and, once on the ground, cuffed by an officer who bestrode him. |
| Many of these men were to die, bringing a grief which bestrode the town all that summer and autumn, and which is still remembered today. |
| Not since the mighty man bestrode the oche had Scotland threatened to furnish such an unlikely sporting hero. |
| He moved on to the national stage, bestrode it, and then let his talents run away into the sands of Liberal Unionism and Tariff Reform. |
| It's pointing to as close a finish as that nerve-shredding middle-distance rivalry between the two men when they bestrode the athletics world. |
| The kind of small-town hostility to European monarchies comically depicted by Mark Twain then bestrode the world stage. |
