unspanned

It delights my eye to look on her: she suits me: if I were a king, and she the housemaid that swept my palace-stairs - across all that space between us - my eye would recognise her qualities; a true pulse would beat for her in my heart, though an unspanned gulf made acquaintance impossible.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

But to fail to realize that between the daughter of the house of Saunders and the daughter of the house of Brown an unspanned social chasm must forever stretch would have been, indeed, the unforgivable offense.

Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

On the fringe of an unspanned continent along whose gelid coast our comrades had made their home -- we knew not where -- we dwelt where the chill breath of a vast, Polar wilderness, quickening to the rushing might of eternal blizzards, surged to the northern seas.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

We are altogether a nation of dissimilar parts, whose homogeneity is rift with unspanned chasms.

The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion 1901

Again the black figures began to move, but instead of drawing nearer the camp, apparently supposing that they had not been observed, they directed their course towards the kraal which had been observed by the travellers on the hillside just before they unspanned.

Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand William Henry Giles Kingston 1847