What is "higher up"

Usage examples of "higher up".

A hillside village, looking down on a crook of a beach, buildings clustered at the bottom, scattered among the trees higher up.

But on the eighth day of my hiding I learned from spies that Cortes had crossed the great river higher up, and was cutting his way through the forest, for of swamps he had passed more than enough.

Sunlight filtered down from the slit windows higher up in the obelisk.

But no one higher up had commented on it, their actions had probably saved his life as well as their own, and whatever had happened at Yeltsin, Theisman had fought stubbornly, courageously, and well at Seabring.

Were there not currents higher up that would waft him to less arid regions?

The natural vegetation on this rich volcanic soil is woodland, but higher up the land has been terraced to make room for olive groves, vineyards, and orchards—.

My perception of its place below follows my perception of its place higher up in the course of the stream, and it is impossible in the apprehension of this phenomenon that the ship should be perceived first below and then higher up.

Opposite, and higher up, is a narrow hermitage built against a rock.

The temple, situated in the country of the Banizomeneis, was not between the Thamudites and the Sabaeans, but higher up than the coast inhabited by the former.

They were the very old folk who dwelt higher up in the hills and spoke a choppy language which the Vascones could not understand.

A third light answered from the Surrey bank, and a fourth shone out yet higher up and on the opposite side of the Thames.

Trees clung to its lower slopes, pines and hawthorn and ash, but higher up the ground was bare, the ridgeline stark against the cloudy sky.

And there, higher up, was a branch that had been broken and left to hang.

More than once he had fed his superiors to those still higher up in order to cover himself.

He went on and, ten stairs higher up, came to a window set in a high embrasure.