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

As if by magic the solemn, quiet calm of the polar night was broken by a series of tornado-like gusts, and soon the responsive ice-field quivered as though upcast by a marine earthquake.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.

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

"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

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.