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This is a landscape rolled and moved by the tides, each pebble lifted and dropped, lifted and dropped by the run and ebb, each advance and retreat carried a little farther upcoast.

From The Verge • Mar. 31, 2018

People from “offshore,” as locals like to call the mainland, tend to think of the island’s Inlet end as north, because it’s upcoast, but locals call it east.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2015

We were compelled to await an upcoast steamer till August, when that adventurous craft, the steamer "McKim," now newly named the "Humboldt," resumed sea-voyages.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)

The ship's bows swung around, and the little steamer was soon scuttling upcoast towards the headland, along the outer line of reefs, at a speed of seven knots.

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames

And, to prove it, engaged passage at once, for the next upcoast trip, on the same little steamer which a few days earlier had carried Mr. and Mrs. Benis H. Spence.

From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone