So having left Linn still busy with her linen, Alida and I took our way to the look-out summer-house above the aerial swing of the suspension bridge, leaving the elders talking very soberly together.
They gabbled of drainage and water supplies, the suspension of rents and pawnbrokers' pledges for six months.
So that we passed through a chorus of yelping curs, till the massive pillars of the great suspension bridge rose stark and marble-white in the moonlight.
The river, sometime of molten copper, was again grey, unpolished silver under the moon, save where the webbed and delicate shadow of the great suspension bridge slept on the water.
The most perfect rest of mind and body is one of the essentials to success, the entire suspension of stimulating drinks of an alcoholic nature, of which beer is the most irritating, and tea or coffee must be discarded.
There is the real origin of the suspension bridge.
This is the beginning, the suggestion, for the vast suspension bridges that have allowed the world to cross the great North River from New York to Brooklyn, and that span great rivers and gorges elsewhere in the world.
Yet, before they retired, a short suspension of arms was granted, which allowed some time for a more temperate negotiation.
The majority, however, have no less than four handles, and that they were still intended for suspension is shown by the method of decoration which can only be properly seen in this position (cf.
Footnote 381: Probably an imitation of the projections on bronze lamps, to which chains for suspension were attached.
Brunn[418] considers that they served a definite architectural purpose, being intended to cover a field enclosed by borders, and that the holes with which they are pierced show that they were used either for suspensionor attachment.
The base was usually left open, and a vent-hole was left at the back which may have served a double purpose—first to allow the clay to contract without cracking, and subsequently in some cases for the suspension of the completed figure.
And that there were twosuspension bridges or catwalks on the second floor and on the third floor.
I must now ask you to indulge me in a suspension of this general rule, especially as my object has as much to do with your future as my own.
The civil courts of the District being in full power for the adjudication of all cases arising within their jurisdiction, nothing but a pressing military necessity could give countenance or pretext for the suspension of the civil law.
Martial law had not been declared; there was not even a temporary suspension of the civil authority, even in exceptional cases, in the District of Columbia.
His labors were first as a canal and railway engineer, then he became the inventor and manufacturer of a new form of wire rope, and then turned his attention to the construction of aqueducts and suspension bridges.
His next work was the splendid suspension bridge at Cincinnati, Ohio, which has a clear span of 1057 feet.
Roebling, he commenced that magnificentsuspension bridge to unite the great cities of New York and Brooklyn, and which, by its completion, resulted in the consolidation of those cities as Greater New York.
The Menai tubular railway bridge, adjacent to the suspension bridge of Telford across the same strait, and already described, was the first example of this type of bridge.
Then followed finer and larger suspension bridges in other parts of the world.
In 1829 Brown also was the engineer for suspension bridges built over the Esk at Montrose and over the Thames at Hammersmith.
Suspension bridges are best adapted for long spans, and have been constructed with spans more than twice as long as any other form.
But a suspensionbridge was completed in 1834 by M.
What is called the cantilever system has of late years to a great extent superseded the suspension construction.
Two fine examples of this type are found, one in a bridge across the Niagara adjacent to the suspension bridge above described and one across the river Forth at Queens Ferry in Scotland.
The next finest suspensionbridge was constructed by Thomas Telford and finished in 1826, across the Menai Strait to connect the island of Anglesea with the mainland of Wales.
This suspension point will receive the greatest stress when the tent is pitched.
The lines of stress in a tent lead from the points of suspension and these should be strengthened by tapes sewed on.
The advantage in this single point suspension is this--if the straps hug close to the neck of the packer there is not the down drag or tire which would be the case were the straps nearer the points of the shoulders.
Throw the suspension rope (5 yards of braided window sash cord) attached to the loop at G over a projecting limb or pole and pull taut.
A suspension of arms on our part, if adopted in time, will secure it for us, and, I may add, on our own terms.
Sidenote: Suspension of Parliamentary life] With peace and a full treasury the need for calling Parliament together was removed.
Charles had already consented to the suspension of the judgement of his diet at Worms, a consent which gave security to the new Protestantism in North Germany.
It was the Cardinal's long tenure of the whole Papal authority within the realm, and the consequent suspension of appeals to Rome, that led men to acquiesce at a later time in Henry's own claim of religious supremacy.
The last advertisement quoted above gives hammock-cloth, which vaguely suggests suspension of a kind.
The Neapolitan Calesse, the Norwegian Carriole, and the Yarmouth Cart were all made with a view to obtaining ease by suspensionon poles between bearings placed far apart.
After the fatal days of June, he published an article on le terme, which caused the first suspension of "Le Representant du Peuple.
Mr. De Korté was then threatened with suspension owing to pecuniary embarrassments, and would evidently not be allowed to preside.
In a few hours it will all be dissolved and will remain in suspension for some length of time very well.
The commercial form is a crystal which insuspension settles rapidly, a serious fault.
Both these arsenicals should be thoroughly wet up by stirring in a smaller receptacle before they are put into the spray tank, in order to get them in as complete suspension as possible.
Her father was more than usually stern and exacting with her in these days of her suspension from meeting, inasmuch as it involved her dismissal from the hotel and the consequent loss to him of two dollars a week.
Tillie humbly said; but somehow the sadness that should have expressed itself in the voice of one under suspension from meeting, when speaking of her sin, was quite lacking.
Inflammation of a tendon results in lameness; of the udder, in suspension of milk secretions; and of the stomach by interference with digestion of the feed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suspension" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
