In the midst of this uproar the Grey-Feather came speeding to me with news that the enemy was a little way upstream and seemed inclined to make a stand.
We followed the bank, keeping just within the shadows; and I was ever scanning the spots of starlit water for that same canoe which I had learned was to go upstream to watch us.
The upstream roof of the cavern fell in for forty feet and a torrent of mud cascaded into the basin.
By the time they reached the lip, the water level had risen past the underground upstream mouth of the catch basin and was boiling steadily upwards past the sixty-foot mark towards the surface.
Upstream a line of metal poles extended up from the dry river bottom for a mile.
The water level in the river bed continued to rise and a backwater began forming, extending nearly a quarter of a mile upstream before it stopped.
In a half hour the six units had carved out a cavern in the solid rock fifty feet high and extending six hundred feet upstreamfrom the vertical bore.
As soon as the first two lasers reached the surface and were swung onto the gravel bed, they were sent waddling on their tracked carriers a hundred feet upstream beyond the upper end of the underground emergency cavern.
The first of the four huge, sealed nuclear sump pumps had just touched the floor of the basin at the vertical bore when the tech at the gauge farthest upstream yelped, "It's wet!
A wall of water came surging down from the upstream end of the cavern and smashed into the bore hole wall in a muddy, seething maelstrom.
The lasers were aimed upstream and began burning a fan-shaped cut into the solid rock.
We poled our way up five long rapids without special difficulties, now working into the lee of a rock whose location he knew within a few yards, now paddling furiously across the channel to catch the upstream current of an eddy.
The journey upstream required three months; with the current they returned home in fifteen days.
Looking upstream we could pick out the submerged rocks hidden in the muddy water, and looking like an innocent wave from above.
The boat was to be turned upstream against an eight-mile current with big sand-waves, beginning about sixty feet from the shore, running in the middle of the river.
Emery rowed upstream for a hundred yards, against a stiff current, and came back jubilant.
So upstream we went, keeping back of the bushes that fringed the banks, carefully searching for a sign.
The paddle-wheel churned the water at a great rate, sending the boat upstream as far as the ropes would let her go.
In a single night a bar of this kind will work upstream for a distance of several feet; then the sand will be carried down with the current to lodge again in some quiet pool, and again be carried on as before.
Out on the open sea one can usually make some headway by rowing against the ebb or flow of the tide: here on the Colorado, where it flowed upstream at a rate of from five to eight miles an hour, it was different.
We had a comfortable mess table set so that we could see upstream and also a good deal of the left bank.
As we moved upstream past the palm grove, scene after scene in a tussle of five months became again vivid.
Pending the arrival of our upstream transport I was ordered with the other officers on to the Karadenis which lay in mid-stream.
Captain Morland have gone upstream to interview the Turkish Commander-in-Chief.
Some stores and letters have goneupstream from down below, but so far nothing has arrived for the lonely hospital here filled with wounded and sick and dying.
He announced his intention to go upstream with some other brigade, and I said good-bye to a very pleasant companion.
It was exactly the reverse sensation to that we had on going upstream as captives after Kut.
To crown all, the disastrous news has come that, despite most elaborate assurances to the effect that the garrison would be conveyed upstream in barges, the men have been ordered to march to Baghdad with kit through this fearful heat.
The spillway through which the surplus waters of Gatun Lake will be let down to the sea level, is a large semicircular concrete dam structure with the outside curve upstream and the inside curve downstream.
They are about 10 feet high and are built of reinforced concrete, with huge cast-iron blocks upon their upstream faces.
Ahead are the upstream gates, closed also until the water in the lock is brought up to the level of the water in the lake.
Starting on the upstream side there is a section made of solid material from Culebra Cut.
Beyond this is the upstreamtoe of the dam, which is made of the best rock in the Culebra Cut.
By the time he did, and searched all the upstream hiding places, Harky would be a couple of miles down.
A quarter of a mile on the upstream side of the Heglin farm, Harky started into the woods and stopped worrying.
He knew of several pools that had their full quota of fish, and that were so situated that a man could lie behind willows, fish, and see a full quarter of a mileupstream the while he remained unseen.
Raw Stanfield, Butt Johnson, Bear Pen Crawford, and Mule Domster all lived upstream from the Mundee farm.
Up and down is doubtless wrong, for who could propel a boat upstream against a foaming current going over ten miles an hour, and often nearer fifteen!
It is towing a huge raft of timber, and, notwithstanding the heavy pull, is making good progress upstream and against the current.
A very pretty picture of comfort, cool breezes and aquatic pleasures it makes, and we are just turning out into midstream when a mellow-toned salute from an upstream passenger boat greets the ear.
Half a mile upstream from the Indian camp the Wildcat greeted the dawn.
They made their way a mile upstream and came upon the Sheriff's horse, hitched fast to a cottonwood on the river bank.
He drove in his twelve-cylinder car to a point near the upstream tip of Memloose Island, whereon the Flathead salmon dance was to be held.
Or had they perhaps come to grief in some upstream rapid and finally been washed ashore on the lake?
On the other hand, when a lone doe with her fawn approaches the river bank, she may be very circumspect, taking time to look carefully upstream and down, and across, before venturing into the water.
To proceed now onwards upstream to Asuncion, our steamer must not draw more than ten feet of water, or it will strand on the shallows, but here we are little short of a thousand miles from the Plate, in the very heart of the continent.
This digression, however, has led us away from the upstream journey to Asuncion.
To one bound upstream this is the parting of the river ways.
A major long-term concern is the additional drain of upstream Euphrates water by Turkey when its vast dam and irrigation projects are completed by mid-decade.
When fishing fast water, I fish them exactly as I would a dry fly, upstream or up and across the current.
The most picturesque and appropriate way of reaching Nizhni Novgorod is by the Volga, with which its life is so intimately connected, and the most characteristic time to see the Volga steamers is on the way upstream during the Fair.
A door upstream swung open at will for ambitious swimmers.
The traces of their towpath along the shores may still be seen, and the system itself may even be observed at times, when light barks have to be forced upstream for short distances.
The 1904 flood took the town by surprise, as there were no telephones in the territory upstream from Minot by which the alarm could be given, and small houses were torn from their foundations as the crest of the flood hit the city.
The control of a river mouth becomes a desideratum or necessity to the upstream people.
Here they dispose of their remaining stock and also of their barges, the lumber of which is utilized for sidewalks, and they themselves return upstream by steamer.
The culture of the valley originated in Lower Egypt, and, with that easy transmissibility which characterizes ideas, it moved upstream into Ethiopia, which never evolved a culture of its own.
Rome's location as toll-gate keeper of the Tiber gave her knowledge of the upstream country and directed her conquest of its valley; and the movement thus started gathered momentum as it advanced.
Only small boats, laden with fine commodities of small bulk and large value, occasionally made the forty day upstream voyage from New Orleans to Louisville.
A long-term concern is the additional drain of upstream Euphrates water by Turkey when its vast dam and irrigation projects are completed toward the end of the 1990s.
They saw the canoe strike the swift running of the water and hang for a moment, as if irresolute, uncertain whether it would turn its bow upstream or be swerved broadside.
These two canoes, not racing now, but going along side by side in friendly manner, sped quietly and swiftly upstream in the direction of the Ellison dam.
Dangling the pickerel by the gills, and shouldering his gun, he pushed on upstream through the alders, leaving Little Tim angry and smarting.
Realizing that he might have to swim across the whole width of the river, the boy kept on upstream knowing that it would be better to have the current in his favor when he entered the water.
Then turn them over as outlaws and return on the Government steamer if it’s goingupstream to the cove.
They’ll shoot upstream in a minute, and that’ll be the last of the merry old Rambler!
While he stood deliberating over the problem, a a loud hail came from upstream and turning he saw the coal tow sweeping down the river.
He figured that he could very readily elude the coal tow and return upstream to his chums.
River boats pass those coal tows every day in the week, and I guess Alex can get the Rambler upstream again.
But hardly was camp pitched two miles below town when one of the jam crew came upstream to report a difficulty.
He backed cautiously until he lay outspread on the upstreamslope of the boulder.
XIV Near noon of the following day a man came upstream to report a jam beyond the powers of the outlying rivermen.
This rested on wooden piers shaped upstream like the prow of a ram in order to withstand the battering of the logs.
As they proceeded upstream they came upon more and more logs, some floating free, more stranded gently along the banks.
The racks were so arranged that the fish could get upstream through the bars, but could not get downstream.
Mister Johnson was leading them in anupstream slant, bearing well to the right while the bobbing frantic heads of other creatures let the moderate current press them away to the left.
Astern lay the other boats, trailed out one behind the other, pointing their noses upstream for the start.
Upstream the river was lost to view in a slow bend.
