up the river

Twenty minutes later they saw them again, on their way back up the river.

After the bridge, the road up the river on the right bank.

The rising sun found the party two miles up the river.

"Now we hope to send these people up the river for years."

Sure enough, several miles up the river and close to it, there lay a city.

The two ships then moved further up the river until they reached the town itself.

Yes, the children did clean up the river, and their efforts made a wonderful difference.

But by the time they have done all these things, I hope we will be many kilometers up the river.

"That kind of thing happens all the way up and down the river," he said.

I glanced away, back up the river from where we'd come.