| He made a few turns around the room, astraddle of his chair, and ended by a grand somersault, as if his steed had dismounted him. |
| Having careered, plunging and tugging and side-stepping, until she was astraddle of the outside trace, Jenny stopped. |
| Set him astraddle the wooden horse with a spear shaft at either foot to teach him that a soldier's first duty is not to think. |
| The antagonists in the strange duello sat back to back, astraddle a seat. |
| Crocodilians have toughed it out in one guise or another for 230 million years, some by land, others by sea, most astraddle, but all the while, stylishly crocodile. |
