He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread out like a serpent with two heads.

Grabski's shanty was beyond the bridge over the River Bystrzyca near the rail center.

The ruins of Amphipolis as seen by E. Cousinéry in 1831: the bridge over Strymon, the city fortifications and the Acropolis.

During his visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Manila in 1996, he was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge where a bomb had been planted.

The Si-o-se Pol bridge over Zayandeh River is an example of Safavid dynasty ( 1502 – 1722 ) bridge design.

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.

Bamboo bridge over the Serayu River in Java, Indonesia ( ca.

Primitive suspension bridge over the Astore River | River Astore

With the span of, the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.

The longest cable-stayed bridge is the Sutong Bridge over the Yangtze River in China.

In railway parlance, an overbridge is a bridge crossing over the course of the railway.

Often, this is the case with a large bridge that serves as an entrance to a city, or crosses over a main harbor entrance.

Often in palaces a bridge will be built over an artificial waterway as symbolic of a passage to an important place or state of mind.

His army crossed the Bosphorus over an enormous bridge made by connecting Achaemenid boats.

In duplicate bridge, the cards held by each player in each deal are preserved so that each partnership plays the same set of hands as their East-West or North-South counterparts at other tables and with the scoring based upon relative performance, thus emphasizing skill over chance.

He was then employed in 1569 to build the beautiful bridge over the Arno, known as Ponte Santa Trinita and one of his most celebrated works.

However, the Germans swam across again and some others got over by a bridge a little way up-stream, after which they assailed the barbarians from several sides at once and cut down many of them.

A bridge was built over the river Nabalia, where the warring parties approached each other on both sides to negotiate peace.

In 1225 – 1226 the Bridge over the Rhine was constructed by Bishop Heinrich von Thun and lesser Basel ( Kleinbasel ) founded as a bridgehead to protect the bridge.

For many centuries to come Basel possessed the only permanent bridge over the river " between Lake Constance and the sea ".

However, they heard of a plot to ambush them by the people of Plymstock, at a bridge over the River Tavy.

They took a detour and built a new bridge over the river, just outside of Tavistock.

Because of that the vehicle with the bridge on board is only 11. 6 m long, but the over all span length is 20 m. This is an increase of about 62 % over that of the older MTU-1.

A drawbridge was historically the hinged bridge at a castle's gates providing entry across a defensive moat for those occupying the castle.

The minor towers are attached while the principal one is coupled to the complex by a high bridge over the surrounding moat.

The bridge over the moat on the north side leads from the avant-cour to an ample forecourt, flanked by raised terraces on either side, a layout evoking the cour d ' honneur of older aristocratic houses, in which the entrance court was enclosed by anterior wings, typically housing kitchens and domestic quarters.

The Swiss bridge that originally crossed the moat to the pre-Raphaelite garden which the Animal Wall encompassed, was demolished in the nineteen thirties.

Another pleasure garden was built in the Bailey, and a second bridge built across the moat to allow access to it directly from the Inner Court.

It had a moat with a bridge facing north.

It took a full day, and the Abbey won over the baron, forcing William de Braose to curtail his bridge tolls, give up various encroachments onto the Abbey's lands, including a farmed rabbit warren, a park, 18 burgage plots, a causeway, and a channel to fill his moat, and organise a mass exhumation and transfer of all Bramber's dead to the churchyard of Saint Cuthman's Church in Steyning.

Only one unusual nine-sided tower survives, together with the moat walls and medieval bridge.

The main entrance on the north side of the castle is today connected to the north bank by a wooden bridge, but the original route would have included two bridges: one from the main entrance to an island in the moat, and another connecting the island to the west bank.

A movable bridge, a pont-tournant, was placed at the west end over the moat, to make access to the garden easier.

In 1934, the eastern castle bridge was built and the castle moat lowered.

The only access to the fort was by a bridge across the moat.

White Castle showing towers and bridge over moat

A modern wooden bridge spans the moat between the inner and outer ward, and within one tower of the inner gatehouse the stairwell has been restored, allowing access to the top of the tower, and a commanding view of the surrounding countryside.

He then swam across the moat and cut the rope of a bridge, which permitted the entry of the insurgent troops to the city.

The entrance to the fortress is by means of a bridge, which, rising from the outer side of the moat and supported on posts as it ascends, reaches to the top of the mound.

It is surrounded by a moat, but has a regular bridge instead of a drawbridge connecting it to the other side.

Michael's Gate was the centerpiece of a larger fortification system which included two rings of city walls, two bastions, a barbican and a falling bridge over the water moat.

Eltham was bestowed by Charles II on John Shaw and — in its ruinous condition, reduced to Edward IV's Great Hall, the former buttery, called " Court House ", a bridge across the moat and some walling — remained with Shaw's descendants as late as 1893.

Fragments of the walls of other buildings remain visible around the gardens, and the 15th century bridge still crosses the moat.

In 1938 a bridge was built across the boating lake section of the moat.

The inner moat delimits a 400 by 300 meters area, with remains of a laterite wall and four cruciform gopuras, and it is crossed by a wide earthen causeway, flanked by seven-headed nāgas, such as a draft of nāga bridge.

The other remaining keeps are Fushimi-yagura ( located next to the upper steel bridge of Nijūbashi ) and Tatsumi-nijyu-yagura ( at the corner of Kikyō-bori moat next to Kikyō-mon gate ).

The Great Tower at Raglan Castle, sometimes called the Yellow Tower of Gwent, sits outside the rest of the castle, protected by a moat and linked to the Fountain Court by a bridge.