All 11 Uses
trestle
in
Maniac Magee
(Edited)
- On the way back home, they were on board when the P & W had its famous crash, when the motorman was drunk and took the high trestle over the Schuylkill River at sixty miles an hour, and the whole kaboodle took a swan dive into the water.
p. 5.5trestle = bridge
- Whenever he crossed the bridge over the Schuylkill, he turned his eyes so as not to see the nearby P & W trestle.
p. 122.2
- His footsteps fell everywhere but on the bridge over the Schuylkill, his eyes everywhere but on the P & W trolley trestle.
p. 168.2
- Russell's part was to wait on the trolley trestle that spanned the river, and when Piper passed underneath, bomb away from a bucketful of rocks.
p. 173.1
- Everything went as planned — unless you count Russell's failing to sink the raft, and Piper's practically drowning trying to beach it — until Piper returned to the terminal to find Russell still out on the trestle.
p. 173.3
- And that's where Russell was now, out on the middle of the trestle, high over the water, frozen in terror, not even a railing to cling to, responding neither to Piper's cries nor to the red-and-yellow P & W trolley...
p. 173.5 *
- And that's where Russell was now, out on the middle of the trestle, high over the water, frozen in terror, not even a railing to cling to, responding neither to Piper's cries nor to the red-and-yellow P & W trolley, which also occupied the trestle, idling and tooting about twenty feet away.
p. 173.6
- Mars Bar stared with growing astonishment at Maniac, whose wide, unblinking eyes were fixed on the trestle, yet somehow did not seem to register what was there.
p. 173.7
- It was the second night following the morning at the trestle.
p. 174.6
- He told about his problem with the trestle, how he had learned to avoid it.
p. 176.1
- Maniac tried to picture it, the two of them, making their way across the trestle, tie by tie, arms wrapped around each other.
p. 177.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(trestle) a bridge or raised road;
or: sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletopA trestle specifically refers to a framework of slanted braces and horizontal crosspieces - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)