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 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

The ventilation circuit between the downcast and upcast shafts must be already in some sort re-established.

From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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.

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