Adjective : The child looked at her father with upcast eyes. From Dictionary.com.
With her eyes upcast to heaven, down she sank upon the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Her eyes, velvet-black in the shadow upcast by the lamp, opened slowly. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Objects accepted are predefined and you don't need to upcast and downcast. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference
In the faint upcast light of the courtyard lamps, he saw her in parts - a cheek's curve, her lips sharp as a carving. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
Round about the bed shafts of the mine, the downcast and the upcast, a little space was held voluntarily clear and half a dozen men in coaly flannels were standing there. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
The damp's comin up the upcast, and the cage is blown to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Sir George Tressady — Volume II] Reference
But there was not one of them whose eyes were not upcast at Zuleika. From Wordnik.com. [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference
This I saw by the faint upcast rays of the lanterns they had lit for guidance. From Wordnik.com. [Corporal Sam and Other Stories] Reference
But Margrave's keen eye caught sight of the atoms upcast by the light of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
"She has slept herself cold!" he said to Mara, with an upcast look of appealing consternation. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith, a romance] Reference
As a complexion unto her, the hue of soot doth serve; Her mirky colour is as dust on couriers 'feet upcast. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference
The ventilation circuit between the downcast and upcast shafts must be already in some sort re-established. From Wordnik.com. [Sir George Tressady — Volume II] Reference
Characteristic. upbraid v. To reproach as deserving blame. typify v. To serve as a characteristic example of. upcast n. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Principally ulteriorly the who dampish in integration that squib were sidewise in a few deaconess, polyploidy of upcast. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
There is a heaving in the broken, sunless bottoms; the continents and islands are upcast, rugged and black, shaking the roaring. From Wordnik.com. [The Masque of the Elements] Reference
The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The practice then was to employ a furnace, placed at the bottom of the upcast shaft of the coal-pit, to produce the necessary ventilation. From Wordnik.com. [James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.]
With upcast eyes and visage sad. From Wordnik.com. [Berkeley Against Big Pharma] Reference
Look at those visionary, upcast eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
Now upcast eyes to heav'n adore. From Wordnik.com. [Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters] Reference
With yhe upcast on hire he siketh. From Wordnik.com. [Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins] Reference
With ardent eyes and upcast hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference
Of upcast eye, and tender pondering!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems 1817] Reference
The word by his appealing look upcast. From Wordnik.com. [St. Elmo] Reference
With blithe upcast and merry countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
From his upcast pinions flashing the light. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2] Reference
With eyes upcast, and passion-laden looks. From Wordnik.com. [Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala] Reference
I saw wild hands upcast to the gloom above. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Conisby's Vengeance] Reference
With rueful cheer, and vapour'd eyes upcast. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
Like the shade of a solemn experience upcast. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile] Reference
And still to you his upcast eyes were turn'd. From Wordnik.com. [Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters] Reference
With lip upcast. From Wordnik.com. [Her Death and After] Reference
Thundered aloud, and, dark with clouds, upcast. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
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