1 Undulating gently on elastic springs, the vehicle cautiously descended the steep incline, and then proceeded past water-mills, rumbled over a bridge or two, and jolted easily along the rough-set road which traversed the flats.
2 And now the bridge was groaning under the hoofs and wheels, and now the avenue of lopped pines seemed running to meet them.
3 So he is to stand on duty on the bridge for appearance sake.
4 One must admit," continued Prince Andrew, "that Napoleon as a man was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but.
5 At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge.
6 Down below, the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling masses of Russian troops.
7 Two of the enemy's shots had already flown across the bridge, where there was a crush.
8 But the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense mass.
9 Looking down over the rails Prince Nesvitski saw the rapid, noisy little waves of the Enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of the bridge chased each other along.
10 Nesvitski like the rest of the men on the bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed.
11 As often happens, the horses of a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole crowd had to wait.
12 Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvitski suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching.
13 Beside the bridge Nesvitski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, and having done this he rode back.
14 Having cleared the way Denisov stopped at the end of the bridge.
15 The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel.