down trip

Example Sentences

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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

We could have reached the Presidio if we had not stopped so long, because on the down trip one goes at least twice as fast.

From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Cook, Sherburne Friend

"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

Bill Fish snatched the notes from Bog's hand, and ran down the street after a stage which had just left the ferry house on its down trip.

From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell

It was the down trip, and the boat was in Eagle Bend when Henry Clemens appeared on the hurricane deck with an announcement from the captain of a landing a little lower down.

From The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Paine, Albert Bigelow