upcast

Example Sentences

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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

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

This is effectually done by two shafts, called respectively the downcast and the upcast shaft.

From The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Martin, Edward A.