Kutuzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the
bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz).
He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers without
bridges, by putting on full steam; and many of those present avowed themselves of the engineer's mind.
"Since when have you been interested in
bridges? Or have you learned to be interested in everything?
Marechal Victor, when he started, about nine at night, from the heights of Studzianka, which he had defended, as the rear-guard of the retreating army, during the whole day of November 28th, 1812, left a thousand men behind him, with orders to protect to the last possible moment whichever of the two
bridges across the Beresina might still exist.
We went along merrily till we came to the toll-bar and the low wooden
bridge. The river banks were rather high, and the
bridge, instead of rising, went across just level, so that in the middle, if the river was full, the water would be nearly up to the woodwork and planks; but as there were good substantial rails on each side, people did not mind it.
The old stone
bridge which spanned the stream was within a hundred yards of me; the setting sun still tinged the swift-flowing water under the arches with its red and dying light.
A man stood upon a railroad
bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.
I must stand a minute or two here on the
bridge and look at it, though the clouds are threatening, and it is far on in the afternoon.
The Doctor began to wonder what they were going to make a
bridge out of, and he gazed around to see if they had any boards hidden any place.
As he came to a little
bridge across a dry ravine he saw the figure of a man standing upon it, clearly outlined against the gray background of a misty forest.
A long wooden
bridge over the Derwent, the site of which, with one remaining buttress, is still shown to the curious traveller, was furiously contested.
I was on the
bridge, and as we dropped from the brilliant sunlight into the dense vapor of clouds and on down through them to the wild, dark storm strata beneath, it seemed that my spirits dropped with the falling ship, and the buoyancy of hope ran low in sympathy.