41 Metaphors for bridge

The elegant bridge, whose span is 105 feet, is a prominent feature in the landscape.

"But I think this bridge that spans the gorge is a more wonderful thing than all the wild works of nature around us.

"I confess that auction bridge, as it is played over here, is the one game in the world which attracts me.

This bridge is 300 paces in length, and eight paces broad, so that ten men may ride abreast.

The broken bridge was a capital spot for a skirmish.

The ivy-grown, ancient bridge, with its high arch, through which we had a picture of the river and the green banks beyond, was absolutely the most picturesque object, in a quiet and gentle way, that ever blessed my eyes.

The bridge is a favourite resort of the Russian tramp and pilgrim, and I have often come across their comfortable hay or bracken beds there.

"But nowadays the Bridge ain't wut they show, So much ez Em'son, Hawthorne, an' Thoreau.

This rainbow bridge was the one great natural phenomenon, the one grand spectacle which I had ever seen that did not at first give vague disappointment, a confounding of reality, a disenchantment of contrast with what the mind had conceived.

The beauty of harmony is an instinct in us; it lies in our eyes and in our ears, those bridges between our soul and the creation around usin all our senses there is such a divine, such an entire and perfect stream in our whole being, a striving after the harmonious, as it shows itself in all created things, even in the pulsations of the air, made visible in Chladni's figures.

There is a place for sticks and counters, and there is a place for money and measures, but they are not the same: the former represents the abstract and the latter the concrete problem if used as in real life: the bridge between the abstract and the concrete is largely the work of the transition class and junior school, in respect of the foundations of arithmetic known as the first four rules.

This old bridge over the Adur is worth notice, for it is said to have been first established by the Romans upon a road of theirs that ran under the north escarpment of the Downs from Dover to Winchester.

The reason is this: large bridges are by no means always great bridges; nor do they require, as some seem to think, skill proportioned to their length.

A bridge across the moat which protects the old city is the link between the present and past.

The bridge is a good place just now.

Bridges were fords that became more or less impassable with high water.

Then, very warm and comfortable, they went down by the Tower, and the Tower Bridge with its crest of snow, huge pendant icicles, and the ice blocks choked in its side arches, was seasonable seeing.

SOWERBY BRIDGE (10), manufacturing town in West Riding of Yorkshire, 3 m. SW. of Halifax; cotton-spinning, woollen manufactures, and dyeing are the chief; it was the birthplace of Tillotson.

The high bridge was perhaps the detail that distinguished it from most good noses.

"The bridge with wooden piers" is a fabric of fancy to most English people.

Simond came to the front; I drew his attention to the state of the snow, and proposed climbing the Rochers Rouges; but, with a promptness unusual with him, he replied that this was impossible; the bridge was our only means of passing, and we must try it.

Of these, the Mechanicsville Bridge, about four miles from the city, and the New Bridge, about nine miles, were points of the greatest importance.

London Bridge is the most terrible eyesore to him that can be.

The famous Bridge of Sighs is the material, and we might add the metaphorical, link between the two.

" Her home was at the distance of eight miles from Romanby; and Morton bridge, hard by the heath where she was murdered, is the traditionary scene of her nocturnal revisitings.

41 Metaphors for  bridge