Sentence examples for far downriver from inspiring English sources
After the massacre, dozens of bodies were taken from the Seine as far downriver as Rouen.
The chestnut horse that had made such an impression on Laidi was already far downriver, dragging its dead rider with it, and she wondered if it might be off looking for its mate, imagining it to be the long-separated wife of Third Master Fan's stud horse.
Because the village was far downriver, the dam would not offer much protection, so the Corps proposed to build a $3.5 million levee around the community.
I was posted to a couple of different teaching assignments in primary schools on the Malaysia side, far downriver from any war activity.
With time, they will contaminate more areas downriver as far as New York Harbor and adversely affect public health along the Hudson through airborne exposure.
The big Bateaux-Mouches as they head downriver on the far side, near the Right Bank, cause some motion, but when they have rounded the Allee des Cygnes and head upriver, hugging the Left Bank, they come quite close to the barges tied up there and create a wake that can make you sway and grab for support.
They spawn far upstream, and the young fish swim downriver to the Pacific Ocean.
Days later, the bloated bodies of Union soldiers floated past the horrified citizens of Washington, some 35 miles downriver, and were carried as far as Mt. Vernon.
In 1876 77 he accompanied the British explorer Henry (later Sir Henry Morton Stanleyy partway down the Congo River, and later he sent expeditions as far as the Aruwimi confluence, 110 miles (180 km) downriver of Stanleyville (now Kisangani, Congo [Kinshasa]).
In October 1897, London had arrived in Dawson City on a hastily constructed boat in far more arduous circumstances than I, including a dangerous, 800km voyage downriver from the Yukon's headwaters in British Columbia.
Maqroll is headed for some rumored sawmills far upriver, beyond treacherous rapids, where he hopes to arrange for the transport and sale of lumber downriver.
