Bridges

Examples

• There have been about 1,000 patents granted for bridges, about 2,500 for excavating apparatus, and about 1,500 for hydraulic engineering. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• All the bridges over these had been destroyed, and the rails taken up and twisted by the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That bridge, though of different material, was in its principle of construction similar to the iron tubular bridges at Conway and at the Menai Straits. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There was, consequently, a delay of some four days in building bridges out of the remains of the old railroad bridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He got upon that road, destroyed its bridges at different places and rendered the road useless to the enemy up to within a few miles of Lynchburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Let us blow all the bridges there are here and get out. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Men made bridges before there was a science of bridge-building; they cured disease before they knew medicine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Presently came ships of iron and steel, vast bridges, and a new way of building with steel upon a gigantic scale. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thence he marched on Charlottesville, destroying effectually the railroad and bridges as he went, which place he reached on the 3d. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This class of bridges is usually constructed with chains or cables passing over towers, with the roadway suspended beneath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They even help out the delusion by building bridges over it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At this place he destroyed fifteen miles of railroad and the bridges towards Charlotte. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As the bridge was destroyed and the river was high, new bridges had to be built. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The bridges are of a single span--a single arch--of cut stone, without a support, and paved on top with flags of lava and ornamental pebblework. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I had, on the 5th, ordered all the bridges over the Rapidan to be taken up except one at Germania Ford. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Typist: Richard