In the next ten minutes he let a new contract for the bridge.

It has been observed by ancient writers that the second bridge was a very good bridge.

Xerxes crossed his host of five millions of men on it, and if it had not been purposely destroyed, it would probably have been there yet.

If our Government would rebuke some of our shoddy contractors occasionally, it might work much good.

In the Hellespont we saw where Leander and Lord Byron swam across, the one to see her upon whom his soul's affections were fixed with a devotion that only death could impair, and the other merely for a flyer, as Jack says.
We had two noted tombs near us, too.