down trip
Example Sentences
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As she was passing Natches, on a down trip, she blew up, and filled the air with every kind of fragments.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
On this down trip from the head of steamboat navigation she met with another accident, running on "a large rolling stone and sinking just above Chimney Peak" some eighteen miles from Yuma.
From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
Ramsey had seen it on her down trip, when the boat, as required by law when descending the stream there, went eight miles round it in the main river.
From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington
They took a day to the down trip, and jogged back in a day and a half, stopping in Sacramento only the extra half day.
From Gold by White, Stewart Edward
The three were the only passengers for the down trip.
From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames
