bridge end

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Workers are nearly finished installing 3 ½ miles of stainless steel nets — creating what officials call a “suicide deterrent system” — strung on both sides of the bridge, end to end.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2023

There was an old road-mender busy by the bridge end, shovelling together the road scrapings in small heaps.

From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

When they had all crossed Haslar Bridge they were cooped up like so many fowls, and that master of strategy, having posted his marines at the bridge end, seized every suitable man in the crowd.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

The guards were hard put to it, with their backs to the bridge end, for two or three minutes.

From King of the Khyber Rifles by Mundy, Talbot

And, right in the middle of the causeway to Margny, two arrow-shots from our bridge end, he is letting build a great bastille, and digging a trench wherein men may go to and fro. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew