"Bridge over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at night the fog began slightly to lift. As Kerry crossed the bridge over Limehouse Canal he could vaguely discern the dirty water below, and street lamps showed dimly, surrounded each by a halo of yellow mist. Fog signals were booming on the railway, and from the great docks in the neighborhood ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... we left Nevers at six in the morning. It appears to be a large town, when viewed from the bridge over which we crossed; but it is far from being a fine town in the interior. The streets are, like all French streets, narrow, and the houses have a look of antiquity, and a want of all repair; nothing like comfort, neatness, or tidiness, ...
— Travels in France during the years 1814-1815 • Archibald Alison
... still see him crouching before the safe; and all the while the eternities stretched and stretched on either side of us, infinities I could only partly bridge over ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... tower, and from this point the flourishing city of Frankfort, with its picturesque Cathedral, its numerous villas, and beautiful gardens in the middle of the fertile valley of the Maine, burst upon Vivian's sight. On crossing the bridge over the river, the crowd became almost impassable, and it was with the greatest difficulty that Vivian steered his way through the old narrow winding streets, full of tall ancient houses, with heavy casements and notched gable ends. These structures did not, however, ...
— Vivian Grey • The Earl of Beaconsfield
... been subjected to the same discipline, and enjoyed the same educational advantages. It follows that the gulf between the ape and the lowest type of humanity is almost if not quite as great as between the ape and the highest type. The savage does not in any way help to bridge over that gulf. ...
— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland
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