Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "up-river".
After his escape from Blucher there had been the long launch journey up-river during which he had remained awake and jittery with the after-effects of tension.
Petronius, governor of Egypt, had brought down as many as ten thousand infantry and eight hundred cavalry to recover possession, had pursued the Kushites southward to their former capital of Napata, at the up-river end of the Dongola reach, and taken and destroyed that city.
Do you mean to say that the Trevista Oddlings have been able to keep track of our voyaging, in spite of the double-time pace we maintained coming up-river?
Raikes uses the radio to order his precious fireboats back up-river before they are cut off.
There was a light tent--only one, for the Hares would fend for themselves at the up-river camp, and Lew and Galliard were no doubt already well provided.
Up-river from Kawasaki, he shared the grove of bare willows at the Yaguchi ford with a big bronze bell hanging under a wooden roof with upswept eaves.
He continued up-river to Taxila, while I began my journey overland to the kingdoms of Koshala and Magadha.
Eliza Kirk finally sailed into the mouth of the Tamar River, passed the deserted settlement of York Town, and continued up-river to the thriving port of Launceston where Captain McLeod proposed to spend some weeks reprovisioning and performing routine maintenance work on his vessel before leaving once more for England.
He had been clerk to Brother Matthew, the cellarer, for four years, during which time fresh grants to the abbey had been flooding in richly, a new mill on the Tern, pastures, assarts, messuages in the town, glebes in the countryside, a fishery up-river, even a church or two, and there was no one who could match him at putting a finger on the slippery tenant or the field-lawyer, or the householder who had always three good stories to account for his inability to pay.
We started up-river two days later, and if you haven't seen a bawdy house flitting you've missed an unusual sight.
Tristal cinched the boat line fast and trotted westward along a clear path up-river from the Shumai farms.
We got into the boat, and the young man began to row with slow regular strokes up-river to the high green Jersey shore opposite.
Pharaoh arrives in Karnak tomorrow, and my father will prevail upon him to order Tanus to take his squadron up-river to Elephantine and the cataracts.
When they reached Jamestown they learned that the tough little countryman still occupied his mean farm up-river, so they steered their ketch to his wharf, but it was in such sad condition that they feared tying up to it.
With his peculiar crew (Burton had a not always fortunate talent for collecting an unhomogeneous band of followers), he had voyaged up-River for twenty-five years.