Crossword-Solution: STRIDDEN 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

That night, we, pigmies, slept in the setting before which should have stridden the colossi of another age.

Ella asked me [this was in 1848] what I wished to play, and heard that it was one of Beethoven’s pianoforte sonatas, he exclaimed “Impossible!” and endeavoured to demonstrate that they were not works to be played in public.’ What seven-league boots the world has stridden in within the memory of living men! John Ella himself led the second violins in Costa’s band, and had begun life (so I have been told) as a pastry-cook.

Illness had stridden upon him; his face was not as she had left it, and the whole body, the splendid supple horseman, showed sickness in every line and limb, its spurs and pistol and bold leather chaps a mockery of trappings.

Thro’ the flaming mountain gorges Lo, the River leaps the plain; Like a wild god-stridden courser, Tossing high its foamy mane.

For he knew full well that the carle had lied to him, and that he might as well have said aye as no, and told him, that it verily was by that same shard that he had stridden over a dead man.