upcast

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

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

One plan was to force fresh air into the downcast, which should in a sense push the foetid air away by the upcast.

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

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.

Thus for long the water stretched it, By the sun 'twas warmed and softened, To the land the billows drove it, On the beach a wave upcast it.

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

Proud Mette and her nine witches hoar, They hurried screaming to the shore. p. 19She waked on the sea a tempest blast, The sand from the bottom the waves upcast.

From Finnish Arts or Sir Thor and Damsel Thure, a Ballad by Borrow, George Henry