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Examples
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Crossing an ice-bridge, the dogs broke through and were swept under the down-stream ice.
Chapter V 2010
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When we started down the trail, he watched us from his post at the farther end of the ice-bridge, whining and baying, and the moment she stopped at the first turn to look back, he streaked off once more for that pocket.
The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson
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Toward morning, as the change of weather continued, and the waters of the river began to diminish, there was suddenly a prodigious crack and crash of the ice-bridge, and the whole mass settled several inches.
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Finally, just as he reached the ice-bridge, the howling became still, a sign that their numbers emboldened them to enter in earnest on the pursuit.
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Arrived at the suburb known as Hochelaga, O'Grady turned his horses 'heads towards the river, and they dashed across the ice-bridge at the rate of about twelve miles an hour.
The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician Charlotte Fuhrer
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His only hope lay in the possibility that they might not dare to follow him across the ice-bridge.
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Finally he stopped on the farther side of the ice-bridge and set up a prolonged cry.
The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson
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They found the river completely frozen over, the cold being intense, but the ice-bridge had only just been formed, and the surface was rough and uneven, causing the sleigh to oscillate fearfully, threatening every moment to overturn.
The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician Charlotte Fuhrer
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The little chamois had fallen through the ice-bridge and lay some hundred feet or so below and beyond all recovery.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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They ran breathlessly across the cobwebby bridges, around Goat Island, then to the shore, then to the elevator, and descended to the ice-bridge; but, above the angry battle of Niagara, arose the plaintive, dying cries of scores of snow-white birds, the shouts of gathering sightseers.
The Shagganappi 1913
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