The young man had come from the drawing-office of a famous bridge-building works.

Our road-making and our bridge-building, our empire-making and our diplomacy, they are all fashioned in the same manner.

The fence had been taken down to allow for the storage of bridge-building material in the meadow.

The Thames tunnel is too amphibious an affair to be included in the number; but the ship canal project, the bridge-building mania, and the penchant for working mines by steam, evidently belong to them.

I have spoken of the breadth of the river; but the stream is not uniformly so limited, since it covers in some places twice and elsewhere thrice as much ground, but the narrowest point, and the one in that region most adapted to bridge-building, has just those dimensions.

When he had his bridge-building abilities fairly well started, he compelled his heavy chum Sawed-Off to act as a living meal-bag, and rolled around upon the top of his head and bridged, with Sawed-Off laying all his weight across his chest.

Bridge-Building.

The chief functions of the field pioneer are bridge-building, fortifying positions, and supporting the infantry in the attack on fortified places.

One day a bridge-building company in Pennsylvania received the specifications giving the dimensions and particulars of a bridge that an English railway company wished to build in far-off Burma, above a great gorge more than eight hundred feet deep and about a half-mile wide.

Bridge-building is really divided into four parts, and each part requires a different kind of knowledge and experience.

It is the fourth department of bridge-building that requires the greatest amount not only of knowledge but of resourcefulness.

The sole sign of man's handiwork, beyond the log walls of the court-house itself, was a crude attempt at bridge-building.

With Specific Instruction for Building Balloon Frames, Church Spires, etc.; comprising also a System of Bridge-Building.

Cox served his apprenticeship to a carpenter; and it was late in life before he attempted bridge-building.

When at sundown she and Ned Ferry parted, and at night he bivouacked his men for a brief rest in a black solitude from which the camp-fires of both hosts were in full sight and the enemy's bridge-building easily heard, he sought, uncompanioned, Kincaid's Battery and found Hilary Kincaid.

The complete accoutrements of the Spartan soldier, in what we would call heavy marching order, weighed seventy-five pounds, exclusive of the camp, mining, and bridge-building tools and the rations of bread and dried fruit which were issued in weekly installments, and increased the burden of the infantry soldier to ninety, ninety-five, or even to a full hundred pounds.

Who was to be our Julius Caesar in bridge-building?

"I wish," says the petit caporal of the Engineer Company, patting his howitzer gently on the back, "that I could get this Putty Blower pointed at the enemy, while you fellows are bridge-building.

The rural county councils and road boards concern themselves almost solely with road-making and bridge-building.

From what has gone before, readers will readily understand that the New Zealand Government has usually in its employ several thousand labourers engaged in road-making, bridge-building, draining, and in erecting and repairing public buildings.