Strangely purest a mile nearer the source

Usage examples of upstream.

Maybe that accounted for the offal: a couple of osprechs were hobbled near the creek, just upstream of the house.

Sevilia and his men were traveling by canoe upstream on the Nushino when, at a narrow bend in the river, they found themselves the target of dozens of Auca lances.

He swam with a powerful crawl stroke and churning feet, keeping his head low in the water and breathing only under his left arm on every fourth stroke, and soon he was even passing the bullboats that were being drawn upstream by strong paddlers.

He watched a few more women going upstream in their coraclelike bullboats, and they stopped paddling long enough to wave.

Warm lemonade and scented washcloths were followed by lunch and then as the boat cast off and headed once more upstream, the passengers retired either to their cabins or to the sun beds on the upper deck.

Leaving her string of sons with Ginny Penn as the seasons passed, Lucy took to the woods with Silas when deer season began and was there in the boat when the shad and the cobia made their runs upstream during the spring to lay their eggs in fresh water.

London Fire Brigade has two fireboats with foam pumps but they are stationed upstream as well.

And besides, I will find passage on a flatboat going upstream, not a coach.

Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.

Finally he looked up and noticed that the noctambulo had moved a short distance upstream from him and was grubbing about intently in the mud of the shore with its great scooplike hands, prodding and poking in it, dredging up large handfuls of mud that it turned over and over, inspecting them with almost comically deep attention.

The Cimbri, united once more into a single vast mass, moved westward upstream along the north bank of the Padus, heading for the more Romanized regions around the big town of Placentia.

And Fair and Susan and I walked along Potlicker Creek for two and a half, maybe three miles, heading upstream.

It sounded dreadfully like the Alujis river rights business again, two upstream provinces against three downstream which relied on its water for irrigation.

Once all were away from the methane, Dondragmer ordered them to clamber horizontally upstream to the point where the eddy current went straightest into the maze.

The few New Crobuzon Perrickish live mostly in Echomire, yet here she is, three miles upstream as the river twists, waking the great Day fisher with her exquisite playing.