One dark night, Farragut led seventeen Union warships up the river in a line.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The surge came from a sudden release by a hydropower dam further up the river in the North's territory.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

When the snow melted that spring, every stream became an angry river that raced down the mountains tearing up trees and bringing destruction.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

As the boat moved slowly up the East River in New York, the doctors put President Cleveland to sleep with an anesthetic drug.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Then he got up, found a long stick and walked up and down the river bank.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

People say the sound of thunder that sometimes carries over the dry land around the Pecos River is nothing more than Pecos Bill's family laughing up a storm.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Lee moved up to the Rappahannock River, across from Pope's army.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Mist can take you on a boat ride up and down the river so you can see the animals as they come to drink or play in the water.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

He grew up in Hannibal,Missouri on the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Heavy rains and flooding in states up river in the past week, are exerting enormous pressure downstream.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

Sea captains on the way up the Delaware River to Philadelphia would stop at Cape May to pick up pilots who knew the bay's treacherous shoals and currents.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15