Is it possible to disable wrapping for a piece of text?

[brandoncc]

I need to produce lines of text which can wrap between the lines, but not within them. The equivalent would be:

<span style="word-wrap: nowrap;">This is the first line</span>
<span style="word-wrap: nowrap;">This is the second line</span>

I tried replacing all whitespace in the sentences with Prawn::Text::NBSP but the result was that it split in the middle of words in the sentence.