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

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

As if by magic the solemn, quiet calm of the polar night was broken by a series of tornado-like gusts, and soon the responsive ice-field quivered as though upcast by a marine earthquake.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.

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

From Perpetual Light : a memorial by Benét, William Rose