Not far off a high, wooden trestle carried the rails across a ravine.

The narrow, single bed, with its four black posts, looked like the fatal trestle, or bier.

And where the ghostly trestle spanned A stretch of marshy bottom-land, The stealthy under current gnawed At sunken pile, and massive pier, And the stout bridge hung airily where She sullen dyke lay deep and broad.

The road was a single-track one, and on the narrow trestle there was no room for a person to avoid the cars.

"They sud 'ave browt trestles oop first.

The few fallen trees stretched their huge length into obscurity, and seemed to lie on shadowy trestles.

He was used to the tall skeleton trestles that carried the rails across Canadian ravines.

The motor road was woven in twisted strands while the railway overhead strode across the gaps between height and height, on a vast trestle that might have been built for an army of Martians.

On a table formed of big planks, once the hull of some wrecked schooner, laid on rough trestles, they ate, what Peggy afterward declared, was one of the most enjoyable dinners of her life.