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Once the central span's connected, this bridge'll stand up under any load that can be piled on her." "Wind risin' an' you figurin' on construction work!" commented McGraw. "If she doesn't go to smash in the next half-hour, we'll be O.K.," answered Blake coolly. "That train has waited long enough. You look to the steel. Load the first sections for this end on the outermost car.
Her gold robe fell to her feet, and very strange to tell her feet touched not the ground, but hung a span's length above it, so that she floated in the air.
His eyes were as stars, his hoary head rose majestically to an incalculable height; still the thick, all-wrapping mist came down, falling on horse and rider and wrestler and robber and Amir; hiding all, covering all, folding all, in its soft samite arms, till not a man's own hand was visible to him a span's length from his face.
But when the captain-major heard of turning backward he answered them that they should not speak such words, because, as he was going out of the bar at Lisbon, he had promised to God in his heart not to turn back a single span's breadth of the way which he had made; that on that account they should not speak in that wise, as he would throw into the sea whomsoever spoke such things.
The first civilizations which left behind them clear records rose in that hoary historic past which geologically is part of the immediate present and which is but a span's length from the present, even when compared only with the length of time that man has lived on this planet.
Shoot them ye twain with bolts and kill them both; then cut off a span's length from their heads and the like from their tails and throw it away. The rest of the flesh cook and cook well and give it to your wives to eat: then lie with them that night and, by Allah's leave, they shall conceive and bear male children." Then said he, "In the name of Allah! May the Almighty accomplish your desire!
He jumped out of the car behind his host, then he turned round. "Span!" he called out. "Span!" But the dog was still lying on the floor of the car, and he made no movement, still less any attempt to jump down. "What an extraordinary thing!" exclaimed Span's master. "Come down, Span! Come down at once!" He waited a moment; then he went forward and tried to drag the dog out.
On this Vasco da Gama again swore by the life of the King, that from that spot he would not turn back a span's breadth until they had obtained the information they had come to seek. The sailors shouted that they were many, and that they feared death, though their captain took no account of it.
"I can't think what's the matter with the poor brute. He's almost perfect manners as a rule." He turned to Miss Brabazon, who laughingly exclaimed: "Yes, indeed! Span's such an old friend of mine that I feel quite hurt. I thought he would be sure to take some notice of me; but I didn't even know he was there till he set up that awful, unearthly howl."
Then Kenric took the sword in his hard grip, and holding it out at arm's length he saw that its point was but a span's distance from Aasta's breast. He bade the girl stand still.
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