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

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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.

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Then from the blood the wounded a clouded glance upcast; He saw that fain his uncle had help'd him at the last.

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Thus, a miner working along the coal-seam S, from a to b, would describe the fault, f, as an upcast, since he would have to mine to a higher level to catch his coal again.

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For  a time he found a kind of contentment in charge of the upcast furnace of a mine, and then he was superseded by an electric-fan.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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