| 1H4 V.i.122 | [Falstaff to Prince Hal] if thou see me down in the battle and bestride me |
| 2H4 I.i.207 | [Morton to Northumberland, of the Archbishop] he doth bestride a bleeding land |
| 2H6 V.iii.9 | [Richard to York, of Salisbury] Three times today I holp him to his horse, / Three times bestrid him |
| CE V.i.192 | [Antipholus of Ephesus to Duke] When I bestrid thee in the wars |
| Mac IV.iii.4 | [Macduff to Malcolm] Let us ... / Bestride our down-fall birthdom |