First, the little church where the confirmations were to take place was trimmed within and without; and an arch of green spanned the gateway.
There was no moon, but a bright arch of light spanned the forest to the north; it was mild and soft as moonlight, but less bright, and cast no shadow across her path; it showed her the sacred tent of the widow of the murdered Mohawk.
They have spanned the torrent with a powerful iron suspension bridge, 100 feet long by ten feet broad, swung between two massive buttresses and approached under handsome temple-archways.
Next day a tremendously steep descent took us down to Kiangti, a mountain village on the right bank of a swift stream, here spanned in its rocky pass by a beautiful suspension bridge, which swings gracefully high above the torrent.
In England this creek would be spanned by a bridge; but the poor heathen, in China, how do they find their way across the stream?
Rocky creeks drain the mountain range into the lake; they are spanned by numerous bridges of dressed stone, many of the slabs of which are well cut granite blocks eighteen feet in length.
And thus it was that Sir Launcelot of the Lake rode across that three-spanned bridge and into the Town of Corbin and so to his adventure with the Worm of Corbin.
And he beheld that there was a bridge of stone that spanned the torrent and that upon the farther side of the bridge was a considerable body of men-at-arms all in full armor.
The bridge of the Rio Tasma was now in plain sight, and Jack's whole attention was fixed upon the new structure that spanned the rapid stream.
Between the two was a gulf of dark waters a dozen feet or more in width, but spanned by a plank over which the girl had evidently passed in reaching her place of retreat.
The Ticino is a majestic river, here spanned by one of the finest bridges in Italy.
One of his long strides spanned the distance between them.
When he awoke red canyon walls leaned far above him to a gap spanned by blue sky.
He halted and spanned the chest of the customer with a tape measure.
Reaching the square, they turned to cross a makeshift bridge--beside one of stone that had spanned the little river but now lay broken in its shallow bed.
At the foot of the slope, which was about half a mile in extent, the boy saw a white bridge, that spanned a narrow but swift running stream.
Slowly Jerry rode his motor down to the white structure that spanned the now swollen and swiftly running stream.
The village did not begin until the Lindsay hill had been descended and the little bridge that spanned the brown stream crossed, and right on the bank stood the tiny cottage where little Mitty Minns and her old invalid grandmother lived.
Meanwhile the car bumped across the little bridge that spanned the creek and went storming up the opposite hill.
Thou that comest clad in rainbow garments, with words more full of hope than was the first arch that spanned high heaven, stouter hearts than mine have been compelled to own thee master.
Away to the west, the dwindling Forth isspanned by the arches of the monster bridge; and beyond it stretch the woods of Dalmeny and Abercorn.
Not very far from the mine there was a wide, rapid-moving river that they had to cross before they continued their trek overland to the Dark Forest which spanned most of the northern part of the Virgin Mountains.
The plateau spanned kilometres before them, and in the distance they saw the small rise that Lehnar called the Diviner's Ridge.
Time had begun, and with its cycles of night and day, seconds and light years, stellar light joined the spheres in moments so brief as to deny comprehension, in a time that spanned infinite dreams.
She paced over the tiny wooden bridges that spanned the midget streams meandering about the entire estate.
Remarkable preparations had been made; a series of arches spanned the principal streets, all designed in native style.
On our return to the hotel we crossed a large estuary which is spanned by several bridges.
Beyond the Piazza Bocca della Verità , the Via della Marmorata is spanned by an arch which nearly marks the site of the Porta Trigemina, by which Marius fled to Ostia before Sylla in B.
Near the Piazza Sciarra, the Corso (as Via Flaminia) was formerly spanned by the Arch of Claudius, removed in 1527.
The main river swells up towards evening; the other two are spanned by bridges.
A little farther down the channel is spanned by a bridge constructed of four beams resting on two stone piers; it is in extraordinarily good condition, and is another proof that the canal contained water not so very long ago.
Here is a beautiful river winding through valleys deep cut in the ochre-coloured soil, its banks are clad with verdure and it is spanned by an ancient bridge.
On the outside is a moat spanned by a double drawbridge.
It was fashioned only as a sort of road guide for tourists, but anyone could judge from the formation of things about how far it was between the old mill and the river at the place where a bridge spanned the stream.
In due time he reached the bridge that spanned the river, which was quite narrow at this point.
The whole broad earth from side to side He measured with one mighty stride-- Spanned with the next the firmament, And with the third through heaven he went.
Tis the same path that once was sanctified By the divine impression of the foot Of Vishnu, when, to conquer haughty Bali, He spanned the heavens in his second stride.
The daylight falls into the hall through a square impluvium, spanned by a network of chains.
We might fancy we were passing through a Gothic cathedral with a colonnade of huge shafts attached to the walls and spanned by a roof of grey and white canvas, the clouds to wit, between which small patches of light blue cloth appear.
But never has the gulf between democracy and personal rule been so quickly spanned as by the commanding genius of Bonaparte.
Here are some remains of the materials of the Arch of Claudius, which spanned the Via Flaminia at this point; and an old piece of fresco, said to be by S.
Alto-relief which formed part of the Arch of Antoninus Pius, found in the Piazza Sciarra, which spanned the Corso, and was destroyed in 1527.
Where it left the Via Sacra it was spanned by the Arch of Tiberius, erected A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spanned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
