Flying Bridge

Another bridge was in course of construction at Chattanooga, under the immediate direction of Quartermaster-General Meigs, but at the time all wagons, etc., had to be ferried across by a flying-bridge. ❋ David Widger (N/A)

In company with Generals Thomas, W.F. Smith, Brannan, and others, we crossed by the flying-bridge, rode back of the hills some four miles, left our horses, and got on a hill overlooking the whole ground about the mouth of the Chickamauga River, and across to the ❋ David Widger (N/A)

Sea-birds, seeing the ship about to depart, flapped and hovered about it by the score, adding their shrill cries to the tumult; and high on his flying-bridge stood the captain, shifting his telegraph from "stand by" to "ahead," holding up or moving his hand, but not uttering his voice. ❋ Filson Young (1907)

I perched myself high up on the flying-bridge and watched the busy scene below. ❋ Filson Young (1907)

A floating body, propelled from one bank to the other by the current of the stream, is termed a _flying-bridge. ❋ Henry Wager Halleck (1843)

Youth and ambition had thrown the flying-bridge of glory across the gulf between the city and the suburb, yet Lucien was as uneasy in his mind over his lady's answer as any king's favorite who has tried to climb yet higher, and fears that being over-bold he is like to fall. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

Youth and ambition had thrown the flying-bridge of glory across the gulf between the city and the suburb, yet Lucien was as uneasy in his mind over his lady’s answer as any king’s favorite who has tried to climb yet higher, and fears that being over-bold he is like to fall. ❋ Unknown (2007)

a flying-bridge ferry at Pack's, on New River, near the mouth of the ❋ Jacob Dolson Cox (1864)