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 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.

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

"Then let us send a message to Mr. Winton," she suggested, playing the part of the capricious ingenue to the very upcast of a pair of mischievous eyes.

From A Fool for Love by Lynde, Francis

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