down trip

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Then the mouth was closed against winter storms, and they started, on their horses, to ride along Top Notch Trail, on the down trip.

From Polly's Business Venture by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

On the down trip Bobby found his mother waiting by the gate, a heavy shawl thrown over her head and shoulders.

From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth

And now, on the down trip, it was glacier-like.

From Moon-Face by London, Jack

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

Well, last week, on my down trip, as we rounded a point in one of those narrow places, there, right out in mid-river, was a big buck, swimming across.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington