She lay white and motionless on the high trestle bed, unconscious of his presence.
He went in and sat down at one of the trestle tables,--a heavy board, black with age.
During the descent of the Rockies we journeyed for a season on a trestle only two hundred and eighty-six feet high.
Crossing the Aune trestle with a ripping roar, the train rushed through Châteaulin, south, then east, then south.
Just where the trestle at Lammerin crosses the ravine below the house of Josephine Tanguy.
The train was running on to thetrestle and Lister saw the water shine below the platform.
Then the gleam among the trees got wider and Lister knew they were nearing a trestle that crossed an arm of a lake.
Not far off a high, wooden trestlecarried the rails across a ravine.
The ponderous wheels were slowly revolving over a trestle bridge of steel, mortised into the rocks, while the deafening echoes reverberated between the narrowing walls, and rippled the surface of the river flowing deep and black below.
From the platform the trestle ran down at an easy incline to the ground.
Before proceeding with the trestle and track we thought the best plan would be to build our car, and then we could use it as a gauge to determine how far apart the rails should be set.
We planned to run our gravity railway across this bridge, moving our platform and trestle to the opposite bank; so instead of flooring our bridge with slabs, we fastened ties across at intervals of 15 or 18 inches.
His plan was to build an inclined trestle on the high ground just below the lagoon, and then run wooden tracks along the shore down to the pontoon bridge, and across the mill-race to Kite Island.
A pair of folding trestle legs can then be made for the table.
A CAMP STOOL can be made in much the same way, with a strip of canvas or carpet or several strings of webbing nailed across, from the top of one trestle to the other, the trestles, of course, being quite small.
And after supper he and Carhart stood together on the high ground at the eastern end of the trestle and talked it over.
The men from camp will be working out across the trestle and up the hill at the same time.
It was very good for thetrestle perhaps, and the bridge, but was it so good for the senor?
He could look over the tops of the four unfinished piers and the western abutment and see the trestle where it was continued on the farther side.
The moon was rising behind them, and the valley and the trestle and the rude intrenchments of timber and rock on the opposite ridge and the knolls outlined against the sky grew more distinct.
News that thetrestle had been burned to the ground would have drawn no more than a glance and a nod from him.
The trestle is fifty to a hundred and fifty feet high, from ridge to ridge.
Across the valley, at the point where the trestle met the rising ground, they could see lights, some of them moving about.
It could not be that man was made for this--to become a slave to this trestle structure which was slowly crawling, like some monster centipede, across the sands of the La Paz.
Well," said he, "the section of your train that has already pulled out has run wild down a steep grade over an immense trestlewith nothing but zigzags and reverse curves.
It had passed safely over the trestle and had reached a heavy ascending grade.
The trestle was ticklish walking for even a person who wasn't lame.
Do you remember," he cried, "the day at your grammar-school picnic when I carried you over the railroad trestle because the locomotive that was swooping down upon us round the curve had scared all the starch out of your legs?
It was to ride almost to the very gates of Louisville, and to destroy the immense trestle works at Muldraugh Hill.
Attacking the rear guard of the enemy as it was leaving the place, he not only defeated them, but drove them to within seven miles of Nashville, capturing the force at Pilot Knob, and burning the high railroad trestle at that place.
Cuba Trestle -- Trestle with wrought-iron columns (the first such ever constructed).
Behrman placidly, "to the head of the Long Trestle is about two miles.
Why, Mr. Annixter, the Long Trestle is a good two miles out of Guadalajara.
She found a spot around the base of one of the supports of the trestle where the cresses grew thickest, and plucked a couple of handfuls, washing them in the creek and pinning them up in her handkerchief.
His other horse went lame and he wanted to go down by the Long Trestle to mend the fence.
We'll make for the Long Trestle and strike the trail to Hooven's there.
It led south and west into the low ground overgrown by grey-green willows by Broderson Creek, at this time of the rainy season a stream of considerable volume, farther on dipping sharply to pass underneath the Long Trestle of the railroad.
Billy was the first to reach the end of the trestle toward which the girl was coming rapidly.
Did the train hit them, or did they jump off the trestle into the water?
With one arm around the girl, whose arms clung about his neck, and the other flung over one of the trestle rods under the track, Billy hung there straight downward over the water fully twenty feet below.
The track at this point made a long curve preparatory to crossing a narrow trestle over an inlet of the ocean, scarcely a hundred yards distant from the spot where they had left the car.
Say, has thetrestle caved in, or what in the name of thunder is holding us up?
The trestleis all right," answered Geoffrey, climbing into the cab.
He departed with the cheerful confidence of the salaried man, and Thurston, who fought for his own interests, flung himself down on his trestle cot with all his clothes on.
At this several men turned and dragged forward a long trestle table, while others quickly set chairs about it; Melun seated himself at its head, beckoning to Westerham to seat himself at his right hand.
The long trestle table was in the centre of the room, and at one end of it sat the bullet-headed man, while at the other was the young ruffian whom Westerham knew by the name of Crow.
They might slide down the trestle if no one could help.
Deep down below somewhere she could hear, in the lull of the wind, the roar of waters, and feel the car sway as though it were hanging on the edge of an embankment or trestle and about to topple into a torrent.
I set out on foot at a rapid gait for the trestle and reached it slightly in advance of the train.
Someone told me that I could catch the train at a long trestle about four miles from the town.
There's a log they want to put into the trestle before the train comes along.
Her husband is at present building a trestle on the Dunsmore track.
He was flushed and gasping, but the men upon the trestle were evidently urging him to fresh exertion.
Fortunes were made and lost across the trestle tables of the saloons quicker and easier than up on the claims.
When he returned Bill and the other men were all stirring, and Stephen sitting up on his trestle rubbing his red and weary-looking eyes.
Now collect stones and rocks, and wall this trestle up solid to the edge of the frame, so that a hurricane can't loosen it.
The column was snapped just where the rope was hitched, and the trestle must have been torn to pieces by the hurricane.
Henri, my boy, put your arms around me again as you did when I lay in torture on the trestle on that island.
Lift the trestle for the last time, men, and stand it here over this thick bed of cactus, so as the little finger may touch the letter on this white tomb-stone.
As he spoke he pointed to a figure standing on the upper trestle above the fill--outlined against the sky.
The railroad crossed the many rivers which empty along this part of the coast by long pile or trestle bridges of hard Southern pine, full of pitch, and exceedingly combustible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trestle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
