At Elizabethtown Morgan was in striking distance of the object of his expedition, the great trestles at Muldraugh Hill.
It was but a few minutes after the surrender of the block-houses when the trestles were a mass of flames.
These trestleslast very well for five or six years; then they get out of repair, and a train goes through 'em, or else a forest fire burns 'em up.
Two carpenters, in five days framed the five trestles including cutting the timber to length; and in three more days, with the assistance of three labourers, the whole was erected and the rails laid ready for traffic.
It is a trestle bridge, the trestles being so designed that each member is a multiple of the height.
When rebuilt in 1894 with stronger timbers, the original trestles were retained.
Ever love, ever the sobbing liquid of life, Ever the bandage under the chin, ever the trestles of death.
Meals were taken at fixed hours, at a long movable table on trestles in the hall, guests and servants sitting down together, but placed according to rank.
It was originally even a simpler affair than it is now, being merely a board with movable trestles underneath.
Across two trestles set on the grass plot, the stolen shutters were laid as fast as they were taken down.
In almost no time at all the first shutter was off the trestles and leaning, fresh and spotless, against the fence.
The wheels roared on shaking trestles and now and then awoke an echoing clang of steel, for the company was doubling the track and replacing the wooden bridges by metal.
He was used to the tall skeleton trestles that carried the rails across Canadian ravines.
I expect you dream about locomotives breaking through trestles and dump-cars plunging into muskegs?
With their axes they had to cut holes into the ice to place new trestles six, seven and even eight feet deep into the river were the bridge had given way.
He had extra trestles made in case of another accident.
At 2 o'clock in the morning three trestles of the left bridge, that is the one for the vehicles, gave way, unfortunately in the middle of the current, where the water had a depth of seven or eight feet.
August Där Nol arranged the trestles so that the two coffins would rest side by side.
The six pall-bearers and others who had gathered around Katrina noticed that there were two trestles there besides those on which her coffin rested.
Supper over, the tables dormant were cleared away as by magic and trestles and bancals arranged around the blazing fire, for there was a bitter nip in the air.
Nate set down on the trestles and waited for the sound of the smash.
He'd slipped off one of the braces of the trestles and sprained both wrists and bruised himself till he wa'n't much more than one big lump.
In the centre of this emptiness at Gagri church two trestles were put up, and the open coffin placed upon them; in the coffin, lying in a bed of fresh flowers and dressed in delicate white garments, was a little dead child.
Hanging over the trestlesat each of the four corners were gorgeous hand-embroidered towels.
After it has been adjusted according to the specified directions, it should then be arranged ontrestles in such a way as to make about three-quarters of it towards the tail stick out unsupported.
If this is not done it may be out of truth, but perhaps appear all right when supported by trestles at both ends, as, in such case, its weight may keep it true as long as it is resting upon the trestles.
A couple of trestles or stands were brought to him, and a board laid across them, and over the board a cloth, and on the cloth were placed all the curious dishes they ate then.
The table dormant was a permanent table, not a board on trestles such as the ordinary one, mentioned on p.
Here she set the pannikin of dope to reheat, and there was a smile of defiance on the girl's lips as she moved about from the trestles to the radiator or the sewing-table.
Aeroplane Lady, laughing a little, but without raising her eyes from the stretched canvas on the trestles before her.
Two of those great wings were laid out horizontally on trestles to dry.
A long hollow log should be set horizontally on trestles of convenient height, one end must be stopped with a plug, and the other have a tight wooden stopper and cross-bar fitted to it.
We therefore erected trestles of primitive construction; two triangles of forked poles, 6-1/2ft.
Walking slowly forward Max Keller went and stood before the gates, between which rose the pair of trestles placed ready for the coffin.
And when the rude case which served as her father's coffin had been placed on the trestles standing ready for it, the hard waxen look left her face, a long quivering sigh escaped her lips, and these same poor lips began to tremble piteously.
On trestles disposed around the wall trophies are arranged--peaked helmets, knapsacks covered with tawny hair, ruins of shells.
Some planks on trestles formed my friend's sleeping-place, and more planks strewn with books and writing materials, his table.
Numerous large trestles are necessary, which will eventually be filled in with culverts and earthwork.
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