Several wooden bridges Spanned the Somme, and I tried two of these to get across, but there were great gaps which I could not jump.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The way was through a belt of timbered land leading to a creek, Spanned by a rude wooden bridge.
"The White Squaw"
Mayne Reid
Bigger and stronger he looked than the buffel, but my heart went weak within me for him when I saw the wild gleam of the buffel eyes, and dwelt on the pile of rugged bone that Spanned his forehead.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville