belly-upward

Updated: January 16, 2026

A huge salmon, battered and gashed from a vain struggle to leap the falls, was floating, belly-upward, down the current, close to Barnes's side of the stream. A gentle eddy caught it, and drew it into the pool. Sluggishly it came drifting down toward Barnes's hidden face.

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts - The Backwoodsmen