11 Words to use with spans

At the end of several more weeks, when Orozco had slowly retreated half-way through the State of Chihuahua, and when he found that the destruction of the big seven-span bridge over the Conchos River at Santa Rosalia did not permanently stop Huerta's advance, he reluctantly decided to make another stand at the deep cut of Bachimba, just south of Chihuahua City.

When I should have been at school construing, Batte, mi fili, mi fili, mi Batte, I was close under a hedge, or under a barn-wall, playing at span-counter or jack-in-a-box.

Cessante causa, cessat et effectusdoes not this look as if the short-span brain activities were the more real activities, and the lecturing activities on my part only their effects?

Of the bridges spanning the river, the principal one, a handsome four-span structure of stone ornamented with stone figures of river gods, lay now in shattered fragments, choking the current, where the Belgians themselves had blown it apart.

For a brief span hath opportunity for men, but of him it is known surely when it cometh, and he waiteth thereon a servant but no slave.

Who were they that thus dared span space to reach out toward him?

Materialism and teleology; elementary short-span actions summing themselves 'blindly,' or far foreseen ideals coming with effort into act.

Naïvely we believe, and humanly and dramatically we like to believe, that activities both of wider and of narrower span are at work in life together, that both are real, and that the long-span tendencies yoke the others in their service, encouraging them in the right direction, and damping them when they tend in other ways.

For these are creatures, compared with whom our weakness is strength, our ignorance wisdom, our brief span eternity.

IN A PEASANT HUT Sultry dampnesspine chips smoking, Off-scourings a span length, In the corners webs of spiders, Smut on dish and bench.

Her lord and lover, because he was a man and an emperor, was entitled to a larger sarcophagus, a span loftier and a span longer.

11 Words to use with  spans