But the days when she had measured anxiously the span of Richard's life were past.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
You're young now, so terribly young, only twenty or so years old in a possible life-span of a hundred years.
"For Every Man A Reason"
Patrick Wilkins
To his carcass a span of strong dogs were soon hitched, and it was hauled down to the sea level.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook