The village sits astride a raised beach. There are few differences in the bridles used for sidesaddle and astride riding. Mount Kenya is an extinct volcano lying astride the Equator. It takes a picture of him, showing Megumi sitting astride his shoulders. So too we are dwarfs astride the shoulders of giants. The 2/27th occupied a forward position astride the track. To the north, the 109th Brigade had to get across the swamp astride the Steenbeek. The caudate nuclei are located near the center of the brain, sitting astride the thalamus. They also designed a grim reaper astride his bull who guides visitors through hell. Lyra, astride Iorek, goes to an abandoned building the alethiometer pointed her toward. Sitting astride the edge of a bathtub can provide relief. The winners are taken to the Tripod city in a pressurised dome astride a river. This means that the city lies astride the main east-west watershed of England. The Thiepval attack was to be followed by an attack astride the Ancre River.