Then there was in-Spanning of horses, hurrying of women after their children, and the trail of dust about each flying cart.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville
The great clustered piers alternating with cylindrical columns, the fine arches Spanning them, the beautiful triforia and clerestories, and above all the long vista of nave and choir, combine to place Durham Cathedral in the very highest rank amongst contemporary buildings either in England or on the Continent, whilst in the Galilee Chapel, to which a porch, replacing an earlier entrance, gives access, the details of the transitional Norman style can be very clearly studied, the graceful intersecting arches, upheld by slender coupled columns, recently supplemented by additional supports, enriched with characteristic mouldings, shadowing forth the approaching change to the early English phase of Gothic.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell
"If there is width enough," mused Carrados, Spanning the upright critically.
"Max Carrados"
Ernest Bramah