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

"And they could now communicate with the workings only through the upcast shaft, in which they had rigged up some temporary lifting gear."

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John

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

They said to themselves they'd be long sorry to let that picthur with them—for he was a picthur, and no doubt of it—to be an upcast to them wherever they'd go.

From Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Another was to exhaust the upcast, and so draw the gases in the train of the exhausted air.

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