down trip

Example Sentences

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

From Moon-Face by London, Jack

Though the messengers had broken the trail on the up journey, they preferred to fall in behind the Doctor on the down trip.

From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton

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

Like ez not, he went over the line beside the driver on the box on the down trip, and took stock of everything.

From Snow-Bound at Eagle's by Harte, Bret

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