Which preposition to use with straddle
Well, for the matter of that: How are you, Mister Wertheimer?" Their hands fell apart, and Monsieur Duchemin proceeded to do away his hat and stick and chamois gloves; while his friend, straddling in front of a cold grate and extending his hands to an imaginary blaze, covered with a mild complaint the curiosity excited by a brief study of that face of melancholy.
" There was a long counter, and the way to be published by Mr. B. was to straddle on the counter and play with a black cat.
3 other Muskeeters got straddle of me, and as if I was a hoss, spurred me up purty lively.
And look, spike-helmeted, grey, grim, Goliath straddles over him.
The flood straddled across his path like Apollyon.
No longer wary, West broke through the last of the bushes and straddled into the open.
The cock soon straddled along with a serious eye and an open mouth.
And when it come to fair and square jumping on a dead level, he could get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see.
The remaining illustrations to this first edition, are an oval landscape vignette on the title-page, engraved by Daniel Lerpinière; a full-page plate of some fossil shells; an extra-sized plate of the himantopus that was shot at Frensham Pond, straddling with an immense excess of shank; and four engravings, now of remarkable interest, displaying the village as it then stood, from various points of view.