upcast
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There she is with her upcast eyes, unknowable sorrow and perfect sympathy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
For a time he found a kind of contentment in charge of the upcast furnace of a mine, and then he was superseded by an electric-fan.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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 Richard Morris
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 Samuel Smiles
I saw wild hands upcast to the gloom above, a shrunken, pallid face, the gleam of snow-white hair.
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
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
