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Pictures 'Final Destination 5' 'Final Destination 5' Aug. 12 In the latest chapter of this horror movie franchise, the survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn the hard way—again—that you cannot cheat death.
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The harbour is well sheltered and capacious, and the suspension-bridge above the falls very picturesque.
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Crossing the suspension-bridge we arrived at the _V.
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Three miles below was a suspension-bridge, across which a train was crawling from the Canadian to the American bank.
Robur the Conqueror 2003
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But when they had crossed the suspension-bridge and reached the quieter paths that ran through the NONNE, they simultaneously slackened their pace.
Maurice Guest 2003
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This was a suspension-bridge thrown over some rapids, about a mile from the place where they now were.
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But it's breasts, great mammary mountains and silicon valleys, that now dominate the cinematic vista: veritable Himalayas heaving and strutting, rising and falling and threatening to overflow their suspension-bridge bras and support structures, designed less as containers than launching pads for a game of hide-and-seek with the nipples.
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In addition, to guard against the corrosive salt air over the East River, the wire would be galvanized—coated with zinc—something that had not been done before and that a few later-day suspension-bridge builders would neglect to do to their regret.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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A suspension-bridge cobwebbed itself across the Schuylkill where that audacious arch used to leap the river at a single bound, -- an arch of greater span, as they loved to tell us, than was ever before constructed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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Far away in the distance is to be seen the suspension-bridge, high in mid-air, and straight as the arrow's flight.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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