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

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

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

This I saw by the faint upcast rays of the lanterns they had lit for guidance.

From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The practice then was to employ a furnace, placed at the bottom of the upcast shaft of the coal-pit, to produce the necessary ventilation.

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel

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 Scheffauer, Herman George