upcast
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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 Orson Lowell
The damp's comin up the upcast, and the cage is blown to pieces.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Her eyes, velvet-black in the shadow upcast by the lamp, opened slowly.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Edison Marshall
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
She said it with infinite sadness in her voice and an upcasting of eyes that were swimming.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
