What is "upriver"

Usage examples of "upriver".

He had started in New-York and worked his way upriver, looking for clues but finding none until he came into the Albany area just three months past.

I had left for Alsatia early that morning, this time travelling upriver by sculler.

Vo Astur was situated on the south bank of the Astur River, and Alorn ships frequently sailed upriver to call there.

They rode side by side spaced out apart upon the broad gravel plain curving away along the edge of the brushland upriver.

I am convinced it is the site of the first capital of Gush, which flourished for six hundred years before the Cushites moved upriver to Meroe.

She made it a point not to look back, so that Electra would have to do the right thing and explore upriver.

When the French took to opening trading posts upriver in order to catch the Indians before they reached the HBC posts with their furs, the Bay men on the spot sought authority from London to go still farther upriver.

It was there the Kentucks and other traders exchanged their products for gold and started the long walk upriver and home.

Two hundred miles upriver, Natchez exists in a ripple of time that somehow eludes the homogenizing influences of the present.

The only boats showing any activity were half-a-dozen rivercraft, stout one- and two-masted vessels that had put in briefly on their way upriver or down.

But soon, as the riverboat left Piliplok behind and began to make its way upriver, the Zimr narrowed somewhat and took on more a riverlike appearance, though it never became truly narrow.

He would not go back upriver, back to the Borderlands, for all the silk shipped in Taren bottoms.

From the deck Sanglant could see five ships, one ahead and four behind, as well as a few fires burning on the strand upriver, but only the foolhardy or the thick-skinned ventured to shore, where gnats and stinging flies swarmed.

Then one day, determined to force the recalcitrant sachems into a decision of some nature, Arsen projected one of the whaleboats upriver from the island, saw Squash Woman and all the rest go aboard it, then projected it and them to the place of stone ruins across the western mountains, he and Lisa following quickly in their carriers.

The night after the abortive assault, a score of biremes crept upriver, their oars muffled.