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Downstream   /dˈaʊnstrˈim/   Listen
Downstream

adjective
1.
In the direction of a stream's current.





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"Downstream" Quotes from Famous Books



... would carry him far downstream and the chances were hardly more than even that he would not strike against one of these murderous obstructions ...
— Trailin'! • Max Brand
... up, and abandon a girl," he muttered. "Dan, I've got to take more account of the current, and work gradually downstream." ...
— Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis - Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen • H. Irving Hancock
... Madokawandock have been fooling deir poor old fader again," said he. "I'm purty sure I seen some one on the tree, when dem pieces of bark come swimming downstream." ...
— Oonomoo the Huron • Edward S. Ellis
... well have held my tongue, for he could not understand a word; and as I shouted again and again I looked at him despairingly, for he was sitting on the thwart laughing, with the boat gliding downstream faster than I seemed to be able to swim, while I knew that I should never be able to overtake it, and that I was getting deeper ...
— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Downstream" :   upstream, upriver


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