upcast

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

Madigan looked from Sissy—her hypocritical eyes upcast, while her soul was ravished by the whispered comment upon her precocity, to which she lent an encouraging ear—to Frank, kneeling angelically beside her.

From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson

Every star upcast a spear and hurled it down to smite.

From Perpetual Light : a memorial by Benét, William Rose

Another was to exhaust the upcast, and so draw the gases in the train of the exhausted air.

From The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Martin, Edward A.

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