upcast

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There she is with her upcast eyes, unknowable sorrow and perfect sympathy.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

As soon as this cry was upcast, to the hall came clerks out of Chaldea, witches and diviners, sorcerers and exorcists.

From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Morris, Richard

V�in�m�inen, old and steadfast, In the surf beheld them floating, 290 Through the breakers shoreward driving, Then on shore upcast by billows, Saw the fragments of the Sampo, Splinters of the pictured cover.

From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Lönnrot, Elias

From each tree The feather'd kinds peep down to look on me; And beasts with upcast eyes forsake their shade, And gaze as if I were to be obey'd.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

This I saw by the faint upcast rays of the lanterns they had lit for guidance.

From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir