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Updated: May 19, 2025
Geoffrey was studying a bridge-work tracing that lay unrolled upon his knees. "I can only repeat what I said months ago. The wing slide of the log pass is too short and the angle over sharp," he said, glancing at the jam. "An extra big log will jam there some day and imperil the whole bridge. Did you send a man down to keep watch to-night?"
Last, Madam Moores, her small figure full of nerves; two spots of red high on her cheeks; her erstwhile graying hairs, a bit premature and but a sprinkling of them, turned to the inward of a new and elaborate coiffure; and meeting this high tide with a smile, newly enhanced by bridge-work and properly restrained to that dimension of insolence demanded by the rich of those who serve them well.
And then, as they rumbled over some resounding bridge-work and crossed the swift and foaming Run, the train crept under the shadow of the cliff and stretched away over a bit of open, undulating grassland, and then the racket ceased for a while and it was possible, by bending down, to catch the patient's breathing. And it gave Geordie an idea.
The largest bridges were of iron; that at Bettws-y-Coed, over the Conway called the Waterloo Bridge, constructed in 1815 being a very fine specimen of Telford's iron bridge-work. Those parts of the road which had been the most dangerous were taken in hand first, and, by the year 1819, the route had been rendered comparatively commodious and safe.
Say, goin' up those stairs where I live I cert'n'ly must 'a' sounded like a well-known clubman gettin' home from an Elks' banquet. Head, next A.M.? ask me, ask me! Nothing of the kind! Don't I show up with a toothache and con old Tully into a day off at the dentist's to have the bridge-work tooled up. Ask me was I at the dentist's? Wow! Not! little old William J. Turkish bath for mine!"
Freight-cars, loaded with stone and iron beams and girders for bridge-work, piles of ties and piles of rails, and gangs of idle men attested to the delay caused by an obstacle to progress. The sight aggressively stimulated Neale. He felt very curious to learn the cause of the setback, and his old scorn of difficulties flashed up.
Now the train skirted the banks of the stream, now shot past meadows of fertile farming land; or of a sudden it crossed a noisy mountain torrent and crept up the hillside until the vegetation became low and stunted, and the rocky peaks of the Pyrenees seemed but an arm's length away. Then slowly down over a trestle of airily poised bridge-work it descended to the valley again.
The river is deep, swift and very clear, with a rocky bank, from which they are getting out stone for the abutments of the bridge. This bridge, and another similar one where the line crosses the Miramichi, are building at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and we saw at Campbellton a large bark discharging her cargo, consisting of the bridge-work ready to set up.
"Aunt Millie, Minnie won't let me sleep." Millie did not answer. Elton guffawed lustily. I returned to bed and found Minnie lying stiff and mute with fury. Elton left, the bridge-work brought to completion. He had a job waiting for him in another part of the country.
"Let them? and Phineas is here!" My poor father! He rose at once. We got him down-stairs he was very lame his ruddy face all drawn and white with pain; but he did not speak one word of opposition, or utter a groan of complaint. The flour-mill was built on piles, in the centre of the narrow river. It was only a few steps of bridge-work to either bank.
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