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

Every star upcast a spear and hurled it down to smite.

From Perpetual Light : a memorial by Benét, William Rose

The fire should be kept as thin and bright as possible, to reduce the amount of smoke in the upcast.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

Then she knelt her down and prayed;   With her eyes upcast to heaven, down she sank upon the ground, And she prayed to God to tell her where the roses might be found.

From Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by Various

For  a time he found a kind of contentment in charge of the upcast furnace of a mine, and then he was superseded by an electric-fan.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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)