send up the river
Example Sentences
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The French needed all the sailors for the Fort, so they sank all the vessels they could not send up the river except three, which it was supposed they intended to use as fire-ships.
From Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by Hill, S. C. (Samuel Charles)
"We don't often send up the river," said she.
From The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Green, Anna Katharine
