Sentence examples for upriver of from inspiring English sources

Camp was on the Mexican side again, just upriver of a two-pronged tower of limestone known as Rabbit Ears.

New Orleans had a tradition of intermarriage going back to the French period, and the blacks living upriver of the canal tended to be light-skinned.

"If anybody knows how to create rain upriver of where we are today, I encourage you to leverage the impact that you have," he said.

But the dam had unintended consequences – an upsurge of a water parasite called human schistosomiasis in villages upriver of the barrier.

We were a few miles upriver of Boquillas Canyon, where the river cuts through the limestone fortress of the Dead Horse Mountains, by the Sierra del Carmen.

For all the brutal "civilizing" of this tiny specimen of the white man's burden, Mr. Thornhill adores her — both as a reminder of his dead son and increasingly, it seems, for herself, since she may also represent atonement for a mysterious day long ago (and upriver, of course) that he wishes he could take back.

Furthermore, while General Wooster, much to the annoyance of both Patriot and Loyalist merchants, had refused to permit trade with the Indians upriver out of fear that supplies sent in that direction would be used by the British forces there, the congressional delegation reversed his decision and supplies began flowing out of the city up the river.

Many Matsés are also opposed to Lot 135 and Lot 137 because of the IPVI living upriver on both sides of the border who have almost no interaction with outsiders and could be decimated by contact with oil company personnel.

When the painter Thomas Cole headed out of New York into the upriver wilderness of the Catskills in the early 19th century, he discovered a new world of colour.

The fossilized bones of Rajasaurus have also been found in the upriver region of the Narmada, at Jabalpur, in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

Alongside, on the upriver end of an 18-acre expanse of grass, walkways, new streets and pocket parks are the first two buildings of the Banks, which opened last year.