A large number of infantry, however, crossed in single file the top girder of the railway bridge left standing.

They threw themselves on broken culverts and wrecked bridges; with only hand tools, so short of equipment were they, they drove piles and built up girders on heaps of sleepers and made the bridges safe again.

The southern opening is spanned by an ordinary pair of lattice girders in line with the girders and superstructure of the swing bridge.

It bears a remarkable resemblance to a bat with extended wings, and forms a series of girders to the arches of the cranium.

I can still see that strange silhouette of steel cylinders and connecting girders against a blue-black sky, with silent masses of flame leaping into the heavens.

A rope was attached to a girder with the other end tied in a noose around his neck.

It is an odd thought that several Florentine palaces and villas built before Columbus sailed for America are now occupied by rich Americans, some of them draw possibly much of their income from the manufacture of steel girders for sky-scrapers.

He has in his time stepped out on a foot-wide girder over a rushing stream, directing his men, and he has floundered in the mud of a river bottom in a caisson far below the surface of the stream, while the compressed air kept the ooze from flowing in and drowning him and his workmen.