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Updated: June 22, 2025
But first how was it?" Eldrick shook his head. "Don't know much more than what the papers say," he answered. "There's an old foot-bridge there that spans a road in the park road cut through a ravine. They say it was absolutely rotten, and the poor chap's weight was evidently too much for it. And there was a drop of forty feet into a hard road.
She was only one of many women who did full duty through the darkest days the nation ever knew saints in homespun, martyrs uncanonised save in the hearts of the stricken. There was a small wooden foot-bridge spanning the brook, with a rough seat nailed against the rail. "One of my convalescents made it for me," she said proudly.
The stream itself, where it crossed the road, flowed murmuring over a bed of loose blue slate pebbles, but both above and below this place forced its way, almost invisible, through a dense oak wood, deeply tangled with undergrowth. A stone foot-bridge spanned the stream, and having reached this, it seemed as if she had come to her journey's end.
In the blue depths of the sky, an immense height above, lolled an eagle, lazy of wing, in lordly indolence. The suggestions to the eye were all of spacious distances and large masses of the room and stuff for unbounded action. "Your West is the breathingest place," she said, as they crossed a foot-bridge over the noisy little stream and turned up the road.
One afternoon, as Alec went home to dinner, he was considerably surprised to find Mr Malison leaning on one of the rails of the foot-bridge over the Glamour, looking down upon its frozen surface. There was nothing supernatural or alarming in this, seeing that, after school was over, Alec had run up the town to the saddler's, to get a new strap for one of his skates.
A proper boundary of thick laurel hedge, and wide ditch, and of iron spikes guarding the ditch, there is between them; but over the wide ditch there is a foot-bridge, and at the bridge there is a gate which has no key; and for all purposes of enjoyment the gardens of each house are open to the other. And the gardens of the Small House are very pretty.
Cherries, in that tranquil person's garden, that are nearly ripe, and roses of a delicate red, but none so ripe or so red as the lips and cheeks of the serene miller's daughter, who trips across the little wooden foot-bridge over the mill-stream, singing a birdy kind of song as she goes.
Trunks of palm or other trees with their bark still on them unite the banks by a shaky and infirm foot-bridge which, if not a very secure crossing, is nevertheless a wonderful contrivance for gymnastic exercises in preserving one's balance, a thing not to be despised.
"Very likely, but hollo how swelled this is!" said Dr. May, as they came to the bottom of the valley, where a stream rushed along, coloured with a turbid creamy yellow, making little whirlpools where it crossed the road, and brawling loudly just above where it roared and foamed between two steep banks of rock, crossed by a foot-bridge of planks, guarded by a handrail of rough poles.
At that spot the houses in the next street, the Rue de la Glaciere, are quite near and there is only one break in the roofs, about three yards wide, with a drop of one yard in height." "Well?" "Well, our man had taken away the ladder leading to the garret and used it as a foot-bridge.
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