A man must be a master driver to hold the reins over three span of mules; and William was as good as any man in the outfit.
The leading span attached to the covered wagon in which Ruth and her two chums, Helen Cameron and Jennie Stone, rode had now communicated their own fright to the four other animals.
As already mentioned, the creature was scarcely a span long.
Shouting to the nearest teamster to lead the abandoned pony back to Tombstone, he put spurs to his fresh mount and came out in the road ahead of the foremost span of leaders on a dead run.
The first span reached the solitary figure of the captain and went straight on south; the wagon rumbled by and Hunt knew by its passing that he must keep to the San Bernardino trail.
A great change has taken place within the span of a single life, and it is all due to the clear sight and patient devotion of one strong man, the Gifford Pinchot of Denmark.
Some cairns that have been explored span over more than a thousand years.
We ran a boisterous course; the year span round With giddy motion.
An iron bridge of a similar span to that at Craig-Ellachie had previously been constructed across the head of the Dornoch Frith at Bonar, near the point where the waters of the Shin join the sea.
Image] Chirk Aqueduct The aqueduct consists of ten arches of 40 feet span each.
It consists of a single web, thespan of which is 112 feet; and it is built of vast blocks of freestone brought from the isle of Arran.
It was a difficult stream to span by a bridge at any place, in consequence of the violence with which the floods descended at particular seasons.
Paine the credit of conceiving the construction of iron bridges of far larger span than had been made before his time, or of the important examples both as models and large constructions which he caused to be made and publicly exhibited.
It was a stone bridge of three elliptical arches, one of 58 feet and two of 55 feet span each.
I want to keep this lad with me alive, That, chosen by the gods, his life's whole span He will against the powers of darkness strive.
The Lielvarde Lord strolled in the field, Together with his son, a lad full fair; But eighteen youthful summers was the yield, The span of time that graced the Lord's young heir.
And yet, if a trustworthy voice from the grave should testify, that there is no life beyond this world; even then he would endeavour to keep alive so sweet a thing as Love, during the brief span of mortal existence.
Quietly she went forth into the noisy, bustling, wonderful world, and wherever she went the skies grew bright, and she felt the warm sunbeam, and a rainbow above in the blue heavens seemed to span the dark world.
But the children of the sun sang in louder strains in praise of the mind of man, which can span the sea as with a yoke, can level mountains, and fill up valleys.
His sustained reserve and apparent indifference had satisfied her and modified her former detestation; but it had not advanced him onespan in her regard.
All the same, his journey's but a span long to mine.
The waters join once more below and sing and foam under the ivy-mantled span of one grey arch.
During this vast span of time the earth and its inhabitants have undergone many changes.
In a few places there have been landslides which have moved large quantities of rock in a short span of time.
During this vast span of time, thousands of feet of sediments were probably deposited, converted into rock, and then later removed by erosion.
After generously giving up its prey to the little wife brooding over the eggs, it stood on one leg and gazed thoughtfully down upon the city, whose shining red tiles gleamed spick and span from the green velvet carpet of the meadows.
Who would not, like you, Herr Wilhelna, go to the Tiber to increase the short span of the present by the long centuries of the past!
It was very quiet about the house, and old Whitey's neigh as Morris' span of bays came up was the only sound which greeted them.
The spanwas 40 feet, the chord of the wings being 6 feet and the gap between them about the same.
It had a length of 34 feet and a wing-span of 50 feet, and was of the twin-float type.
He started and spanabout in answer to my touch, and exhibited a face of inarticulate wonder.
Stephen thrusts the ashplant on him and slowly holds out his hands, his head going back till both hands are a span from his breast, down turned, in planes intersecting, the fingers about to part, the left being higher.
Crossing by a bridge of a single span to Goat Island, we find ourselves in a spot where Nature has been comparatively undisturbed.
The following statistics will be of interest to those of our readers who revel in figures:-- Length of spanfrom center to center of towers 822 feet.
The Ure is quite a generous as well as a rapid stream, and requires bridges of many arches to span it successfully.
The cost of fuels for lighting purposes cannot be thoroughly compared throughout a span of years without regard to the fluctuating purchasing power of money, which would be too involved for consideration here.
During the same span of years the percentage of carbon filament lamps of the total filament lamps sold decreased from 100 per cent.
The former automatically adjusted themselves to daylight, but as civilization advanced, the span of activities began to extend more and more beyond the coming of darkness.
In the brief span of a century civilized man is almost totally independent of natural light in those fields over which he has control.
And all my grief Had been for those I watched go to and fro In uncompassioned woe Along that little span my unbelief Had fashioned in my vision as all life.
It was as though the lives of men should be Set circle-wise, whereof one little span Through which all passed was blackened with the wing Of perilous evil, bateless misery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "span" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
