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A bright green ribbon spanned the entrance at the gateway together with a Congratulations ribbon, which was cut.
The city is crossed from east to west by the Rio Mapocho, which passes through an artificial stone channel 40m wide spanned by several bridges.
When Railpen invested in art it bought a wide collection that spanned Chinese porcelain to African tribal paintings.
Meticulously illustrated pictures painted with a careful hand spanned pages upon pages in an epic tapestry of secret history.
Half-drowsing in the train seat as dawn came, I looked out the window at a little sign before a trestle that identified the river it spanned.
Muskets spanned the transition from matchlock, through wheel lock and flintlock, to percussion.
Last night, for example, the audience spanned all ages, and all were familiar with the ballads, torch songs and comic ensemble pieces.
A singer, composer and pianist, her music has now spanned over four decades.
Mollien's ministerial term of office thus spanned nine years, covering a territory spreading over most of continental Europe.
Other Appalachian populations were sampled along transects that spanned the local elevational range of the warbler.
During a career that spanned five decades, he created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting.
The military history of ancient Egypt spanned three millennia, spanning the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages.
The street in front of her was paved in glossy grey stones, curving up into a bridge that spanned the width of a river.
This legion spanned from raging swordsmen to furious axemates to potent rangers.
Rienks's international rowing career spanned five Olympic games and during that time he won medals in both sculling and sweep oar events.
Sebastian had helped train several organists and pianists during a career that spanned over 40 years.
The fountain promises to be a spectacular light and water show in a plaza, which is spanned by a catwalk bridge.
There was a causeway bridge which spanned the waterway a half a mile ahead.
Looking up, a line of broken bottle necks stood side by side along a high shelf that spanned the entire right wall of the space.
As his vision spanned across the Prison, he saw cages that could hardly fit a small bed, side by side.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Moorestown lay directly across the river, and was reached by the long, covered bridge which spanned the stream.
When the lunch was eaten, the whole party crossed a bridge that spanned the water to Ross Island.
Like a thunderbolt it struck among those slender bridges, the spiderweb of icy strands that spanned the shaft.
The arch spanned the blue sky, and on the dark mountains extended the polychromatic reflection.
They continued along one of the lower galleries of this cloisonne factory, and came to a little bridge that spanned a vault.
We cross rivulets formerly spanned by bridges, of which bricks and a corbel vault are still visible.
Headquarters were in the village across the river, spanned by a covered bridge.
The bole of an uptorn gum tree spanned a half-moon depression at the verge of the spring.
With thumb and forefinger I could have spanned the distance between Soissons and Laon.
The building rose from an island in the circling stream, so that this formed a perfect moat spanned by a two-arched bridge without a parapet.
Below them lay the Crazy Woman, spanned by the Double-draw bridge.
All the glasshouse was spanned and arched over with one beautiful vine.
At last he took a road by the forest skirts, a bypath that dipped toward a broad, pebbly stream spanned by a narrow bridge made of a log of wood.
Brownsville had the first bridge that spanned the Monongahela River.
Either country was spanned by a cloudless sky, and in either arose the tinkle of church bells.
Her work has spanned a range of design vocabularies, from the classically traditional to the cutting-edge contemporary.
He halted and spanned the chest of the customer with a tape measure.
With straightforward writing, Everett explains how he decoded the mysterious Piraha tongue during fieldwork that spanned 30 years.
Though tightropes have spanned Niagara Gorge before, none of the famed circus performers of the 19th century crossed anywhere near the falls itself.
Mary Chivers's mighty feats of athleticism could not have been performed with the twenty-inch waist that May Archer's azure sash so easily spanned.
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