Sentence examples for from upriver from inspiring English sources
Two fishermen came to the boat launch from upriver in an eighteen-foot bass boat with a twenty-five-horsepower outboard.
"The sediments flowing from upriver will quickly pile up where the river will be curved," Mr. Sugisawa said, adding that they would eventually bury the Kushiro wetland.
His "grotesque, hallucinatory vision" of the forest adorns the high-rise offices of construction companies, a cynicism prefigured by his taste for deflowering young girls, "fresh from upriver".
The colony's new proprietors envisioned New Orleans (named for the French regent, Philippe II, duc d'Orléans) as a "port of deposit," or transshipment centre, for future trade from upriver in the Mississippi River valley.
The lower Missouri -- the 732 miles between Sioux City, Iowa, and St . Louis-- is now little more than a barge canal; manipulating water flows from upriver dams will not recreate the grandeur that greeted Lewis and Clark.
In this passage from the first part of "Coming into the Country," McPhee describes the annual breakup of winter ice on the Yukon River as witnessed by the inhabitants of Eagle, Alaska, near the Canadian border:> The ice comes segmentally from upriver and from the tributary rivers.
The Argentine troops exchanged fire with the Brazilian warships but were unable to prevent from them from progressing upriver.
Over 100,000 pounds of PCB's, discharged from two upriver G.E. plants, lie mingled with sediment on the floor of the Hudson.
It is undeniable that money and other resources flow from New York City upriver with the tide.
On most days the relative trickle in the concrete channel is treated wastewater from plants upriver.
The Americans were also forced to destroy a number of boats in the area, as unfavorable winds prevented them from escaping upriver.
