A sudden something gripped the catamaran and flung it
downstream violently against the bank.
They got along quite well at first, but when they reached the middle of the river the swift current swept the raft
downstream, farther and farther away from the road of yellow brick.
The day's fishing finished, they came floating
downstream in their skiff, talking national politics and other high matters, and presently met a skiff coming up from town, with a man in it who said:
It was necessary, also, to keep the recruits in good humor, seeing the novelty and danger of the service into which they were entering, and the ease with which they might at anytime escape it by jumping into a canoe and going
downstream.
As he rose to the surface, gasping for breath, he saw that he had been a long time under water; he was perceptibly farther
downstream -- nearer to safety.
I struck
downstream and shouted, as the open spring wagon came into view on the middle span.
You can't back a raft upstream, you can't hurry it
downstream, you can't scatter out to one side when you haven't any room to speak of, you won't take to the perpendicular cliffs on the other shore when they appear to be blasting there, too.
The fallen Martian came into sight
downstream, lying across the river, and for the most part submerged.
To the left, and
downstream, toward Moosehide Mountain, the huge splash of white, from which it took its name, showing clearly in the starlight.
And then his wife might set out to look for him, and she too would feel the cold; and perhaps she would have some of the children with her--and so a whole family would drift into drinking, as the current of a river drifts
downstream. As if to complete the chain, the packers all paid their men in checks, refusing all requests to pay in coin; and where in Packingtown could a man go to have his check cashed but to a saloon, where he could pay for the favor by spending a part of the money?
Midway in the passage, the current picked up the cub and swept him
downstream. He was caught in the miniature rapid at the bottom of the pool.
It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting
downstream. The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer.