upcast

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

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

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

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

For  a time he found a kind of contentment in charge of the upcast furnace of a mine, and then he was superseded by an electric-fan.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Her eyes, velvet-black in the shadow upcast by the lamp, opened slowly.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison