Three of the columns marked the spots where the Scots spanned the river, and it is a pity they cannot tell the full story to succeeding generations.

Nor could they invest it until they had passed the iron bridgeso called from its iron-plated gatesof nine stone arches, which spanned the stream of the Ifrin at a distance of nine miles from the city.

"Soyou quite understand, my Porges?" "Yes, yesOh I understand!" "Where the little bridge spans the brook,the trees are thicker, there.

Mark, o'er yon wild, as melts the storm away, The rainbow tints their various hues display; Beauteous, though faint, though deeply shaded, bright, They span the clearing heavens, and charm the sight.

It is laid from summit to summit of two hills, and spans a valley over a mile in width.

Then Lieutenant Beverly gave the word to his men, and immediately the hum of the giant motors announced that they were off on their amazing trip to span the Atlantic, as it had never been done before, by way of the air!

The giants lifted us in their arms, the dragons carried us on their backs, fairy bridges spanned the moats, golden ladders inclined against the ramparts, we scaled the towers and trod the courts securely, though constructed to all seeming of dissolving cloud.

From early dawn to late night you'll meet these leviathans of the road, diving into the bush to force a new road for themselves when the old track is too deep in mud or dust, plunging and diving down water-courses or the rocky river-beds, creeping with great care over the frail bridge that spans a deep ravine.

As he went down the hall again to the front door he gave an imitation of a man walking with extended arms across a plank spanning a chasm.

or to adopt another figure, do not these seven philanthropic associations compose the beautiful tints in that bow of promise which spans the arch of our moral heaven?

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

That very evening, at precisely the time we were crawling across the broken timbers that spanned the Scheldt and connected us with Belgium-owned Belgium, the Germans again pumped heavy artillery fire into the town.

Two triumphal arches spanned the principal street, and on one was inscribed "Timon the Benefactor," and on the other "Timon the Friend of Humanity."

We left the "second chain of ponds" by the narrow and sluggish inlets, still the Bog River, here so small that the boatman's oars spanned the narrow channel, and as crooked a stream as it is possible for one to be.

The curving lights which spanned the bridges and fringed the Embankment still glittered.

Her waist ye weel micht span Her waist ye weel micht span An' she has a rolling e'e, An' for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me down an' dee." As I have said, the "rolling e'e" has been changed, and wrongly, into one of "dark blue.

He carefully the plank that spans the abyss.

An experiment with civilization presently spans the planet Earth.

She paused when we reached a bridge that spanned the ditch dividing the grounds from the farm, aware that, save on special invitation, she might not, even in my company, go beyond the former.

You say you're not going to settle in England?" "I am not," said Crowther, and again he was looking out ahead of him with eyes that spanned the far distance.

We went forward cautiously across a bridge that spanned an arm of the canal, and past a double line of houses, with broken windows, from which no sign or sound of life came.

Its need had been learned at Manassas; eleven stars on St. Andrew's Cross, a field blood red, and the cross spanning all the field!

The pioneers of the telegraph felt that a line should span the continent.

It came with a heavy rumble like far-away thunder over the low arch that spanned the dry water-course.

When the Charlotte spanned the thirty-mile gap between Vancouver Island and the mainland shore, she nosed into the Lion's Gate under a slow bell, through a smoke pall thick as Bering fog.