upcast

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

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

"I should require to know the temperature of the shafts respectively, and the height of the upcast shaft."

From Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

One plan was to force fresh air into the downcast, which should in a sense push the foetid air away by the upcast.

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

For  a time he found a kind of contentment in charge of the upcast furnace of a mine, and then he was superseded by an electric-fan.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

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