down trip

Example Sentences

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Some two months following the date of the foregoing letter, on a down trip of the Pennsylvania, an unprovoked attack made by Brown upon the boy brought his brother Sam to the rescue.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

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

Furthermore, it is the place where the stage changes horses and where passengers on the down trip stop to dine.

From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)

On the down trip bags were piled on the roof with a couple of frontiersmen armed with rifles to guard them.

From The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

"She began to choke up day before yesterday, just after you passed on the down trip."

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various