half-upward

Updated: May 25, 2025

He was also deceived by the stream's treacherous smoothness, and instead of half-upward, pulled straight across, as if certainly able to land anywhere he might touch the American shore. Bedell looked over his shoulder often. When he distinguished a woman, he put on more force, but slackened soon the pull home would tax his endurance, he reflected.

Edward William Thomson - Old Man Savarin and Other Stories