Ridden
['rɪdn]
Definition
(-) p. p. of Ride.
(p. p.) of Ride
Typed by Corinne
Examples
- I have ridden at forty miles an hour on Mr. Edison's electric railway--and we ran off the track. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A Frenchman brought it hither, who said, he had ridden night and day to put it into the hands of your highness. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Muck the whole treachery-ridden country. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Agustín put some more snow in his mouth and looked across the clearing where the cavalry had ridden. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You might just as well have ridden back up the road, and saved all that horror. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On the day following our return all the warriors had ridden forth early in the morning and had not returned until just before darkness fell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- There would have been scant mercy for these draymen and footmen who had ridden down the King's gentlemen if the King came back. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- During the time that Pablo had ridden back from the hills to the cave and the time the band had dropped down to where they had left the horses Andreu Nin had made rapid progress toward Golz's headquarters. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Dorothea had been aware when Lydgate had ridden away, and she had stepped into the garden, with the impulse to go at once to her husband. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His horse must have hated these times, for it was ridden both hard and often. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have ridden since I left here. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I mun' be ridden o' her. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It was one day at Rome when we had ridden out together to the tomb of Cecilia Metella. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Ireland had become a land of peasants, blankly ignorant and helplessly priest-ridden. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So, I mun be ridden o' this woman, and I want t' know how? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I would have saddled a dozen horses, if he could only have ridden them all! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Now Robert Jordan watched him riding down the slope alongside the tracks the horse had left when he was ridden in. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The bearer had ridden over to the imperial outpost at Bostra in the wilderness south of Damascus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We reached the famous river before four o'clock, and the night was so black that we could have ridden into it without seeing it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Other horses, ridden by other small boys, arrive from time to time, awaiting their masters, who will come cantering on anon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Haley stood there in very ill humor, having ridden hard the night before, and being not at all pacified by his ill success in recapturing his prey. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A squadron of cavalry could have ridden into the valley and captured the entire force. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This in priest-ridden Italy! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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