upcast
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There she is with her upcast eyes, unknowable sorrow and perfect sympathy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
This is effectually done by two shafts, called respectively the downcast and the upcast shaft.
From The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Edward A. Martin
"I should require to know the temperature of the shafts respectively, and the height of the upcast shaft."
From Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
There is a heaving in the broken, sunless bottoms; the continents and islands are upcast, rugged and black, shaking the roaring Seas from their flanks.
From The Masque of the Elements by Herman George Scheffauer
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
She said it with infinite sadness in her voice and an upcasting of eyes that were swimming.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
The roguish upcasting of starry eyes, and the deprecating little manner, tied my tongue for the instant.
From The Love Story of Abner Stone by Edwin Carlile Litsey
