Upturned

Examples

• Again, a minute bit of bark has been upturned by the scraping hand, and the direction of the break indicates the direction of the passage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He heard a rustling on his left hand, a cloaked figure with an upturned face appeared at the base of the Barrow, and Clym descended. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He wiped his mouth, wiping his upturned gray mustache carefully. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• A yet unconsumed pile of these lay in the inner angle of the bank; and from this corner the upturned face of a little boy greeted her eyes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I saw his face under the hat, upturned mustaches and blood coming down his cheek. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He lay upon his back, his face upturned, with his white teeth grinning through his short, black beard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was a man of about fifty with an upturned mustache. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Now they were in sight of El Sordo's camp in the last of the pines, where there was a rounded gulch-head shaped like an upturned basin. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The woman looked at him intently, and ground her heel into his upturned face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He took his woman in his arms and smothered her upturned, panting lips with kisses. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• And he saw her face soft and upturned to him, very near. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Edited by Dwight