bestrides

Updated: June 25, 2025

Parts of the apparatus were spinning very rapidly, and gave one a hazy effect of transparent wings; but parts, including two peculiarly curved "wing-cases" if one may borrow a figure from the flying beetles remained expanded stiffly. In the middle was a long rounded body like the body of a moth, and on this Mr. Butteridge could be seen sitting astride, much as a man bestrides a horse.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The War in the Air