How To Use Up-country In A Sentence
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Though a railway has been pushed up-country from Jesselton for something over a hundred miles, both road and rolling-stock leave much to be desired, the little tin-pot locomotives not infrequently leaving the rails altogether and landing in the river.
Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
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He interestingly elicits the languor and melancholy of Fowler, fusing this ennui with the action as Fowler journeys up-country to report on the vicious shooting war.
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up-country axiom: `If it ain't broke, don't fix it "might well apply here.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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We'll travel up-country by horse tomorrow.
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By obtaining control of a certain up-country bank, two general stores, and several logging camps, he could come into control of a certain dinky jerkwater line which shall here be nameless, but which, in his hands, would prove the key to a vastly larger situation involving more main-line mileage almost than there were spikes in the aforesaid dinky jerkwater.
Winged Blackmail
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I run a cattle station some miles up-country.
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I run a cattle station some miles up-country.
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I run a cattle station some miles up-country.
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While latching on to the up-country trend, the industry here found itself wrong-footed and woefully short of male dancing talents.
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We'll travel up-country by horse tomorrow.
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Men come from up-country with a big cheque to knock out -- shearers and men like that, who live in the backblocks for months, hundreds of miles from hotels.
Captivity
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We'll travel up-country by horse tomorrow.
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As time went by, people in the up-country gradually move to the borderland, which promote the unity and communication between Hans and minor nationalities.
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Tall Sikhs, whose hair and beards have never known scissors or razor, and who stride along with a swagger and high-caste dignity; effeminate Cingalese; Hindoo clerks, smirking, conceited and dandified too, according to their own notions; almost naked palkee-bearers, who nevertheless, if there is the slightest shower, put up an umbrella to protect their shaven crowns; up-country girls with rings in their noses and rings on their toes; little
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
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Bengal biggah are sufficient, if it is "Dassee" seed; but four is not too much if it is up-country seed.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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She had not expected a prompt reply to her request; teachers were so hard to get up-country.