She had looked pale and downcast in the early evening, but was rosy-cheeked now, and there was a new light in her eyes; it seemed as if the charm of her beauty had never shone so bright.
There was another figure in the room; a heavy shawl drawn over her graceful outline, and her long black hair hiding the hands that buried her downcast face.
M'liss had turned her face away, and the black hair had hid her downcast eyes.
Hers was light, sparkling, brilliant; and one could see that she possessed a fund of native drollery within herself, despite her demure looks and downcast eyes.
Anger too is a fine figure, rending her garment apart in futile wrath, and so is Despair, with clenched fists and downcast head.
Slowly the crucifixes represented the Saviour with downcast head and closed eyes, and his body no longer stood erect upon the cross, but swayed outward in the pain of death.
Fleda saw the whole in the advancing line of the doctor's person, a vision of which crossed her downcast eye.
The first name Fleda thought belonged to another person, and her downcast eyelids prevented her seeing to whom it was addressed.
We can only say at present, that, after a long interview with Rodin, two nights before, the Thug had quitted him with downcast eyes and cautious bearing.
Coming near Nekhludoff and seeing his cold, angry face, her own turned a purple color, and, with downcast eyes, she began to pick a corner of her waist.
Maslova again seated herself, her eyes downcast and her little hands clutching each other.
Seeing Nekhludoff she flushed, stopped waveringly, then frowned, and with downcast eyes approached him with quick step.
All this time the Diviner was standing on the sand, still smiling, but with downcast eyes.
He was eating and was not looking towards her, and she fancied that his eyes were downcast with as much conscious resolution as hers had been a moment before.
On the following Sunday Ted's downcast constraint was much more pronounced, and I saw plainly that my Sabbath visitor was on the eve of a breakaway.
With trembling step and downcast eyes, Venetia entered the chamber, scarcely daring to advance, or to look up.
At length Venetia looked up and sighed; she was exhausted by the violence of her emotions: her father relaxed his grasp with infinite tenderness, watching her with delicate solicitude; she leaned her arm upon his shoulder with downcast eyes.
Sappho could not speak a word even of thanks; she blushed deeply, and stood smiling and ashamed, with downcast eyes.
But she was wonderfully beautiful, in spite of her paleness, her downcast eyelashes and languid attitude.
The response was a silent gesture, downcast eyes, and the betrayal of an emotion, not of the moment, but of months and years of physical want and mental distress.
To her painful surprise when she awoke next day she found herself in a downcast mood.
The ventilation circuit between the downcast and upcast shafts must be already in some sort re-established.
She may have known, for she stood very still, with head lowered and downcast eyes.
When they were seated, and he had nearly twisted his head off trying to meet her downcast eyes, he resumed a normal and less parrot-like posture, and folded his arms portentously.
Why should a stranger, after a week's stay in the country, be able to discover a priest by the scowl on his face, and his doubtful downcast manner?
Wait for a while; and with the happy system pursued within the walls of their college, those smiling good-humoured faces will come out with a scowl, and downcast eyes that seem afraid to look the world in the face.
And, looking at the downcast eyes, at the thorough womanly sweetness and tenderness which suffused the whole face, Hilary's doubts began to melt away.
And they were not really sad, not really sleepy, eyes; that was the surprise of them when, after the downcast mystery, they raised to one suddenly their penetrating intelligence.
Her mother sat with downcast eyes, working on, and a deep color rose to her cheeks.
He ignored her portentous pause and drop of the voice, walking on with downcast eyes.
Mr. Potts's eye, heavy with its responsibility, dwelt on Valerie's downcast face.
The white creature standing there before them, with her forward poise, her downcastyet upgazing face, was her child.
No wonder, then, that they lookeddowncast and harassed, while many of them secretly longed for a peaceful termination of the struggle, and a life of freedom under British rule.
The young Boer evidently understood every word, for with a downcast air he set out along the road in the direction of Johannesburg, with Jack a couple of yards behind him.
Yes, it is all gone," said Hugh, with downcast eyes.
With downcast eyes, Harold heard; and but by a slight heaving of his breast under his crimson robe, could his emotion be seen.
Haco obeyed; but when he returned with the shuddering and amazed attendants, the witch was gone, and the King was leaning against the altar with downcast eyes, and a face troubled and dark with thought.
And now May turned back and listened for an answer withdowncast eyes.
Lady Dashwood saw the Warden's smile, and saw him lean forward to look at the downcast face of May, as if to note every detail of it.
Warden, and again he looked at the auburn head and the dark lashes hiding the downcast eyes.
And Admetus stood with eyes downcast before him, and had never a word to say.
He sat with his head upon his hand and his eyes downcast upon the floor, and his face was sad and full of longing, as of one who dreams sweet dreams which he knows will not come true.
With the silence of shame the folk received them at the harbour, and amid silence, that spoke more than words, they made their way through the city and came and stood before Priam in his halls, with eyes downcast upon the ground.
At first he was fain to present me as going forth to church; then he deemed that he might not show forth my very look and seeming if I were limned with downcast head and eyes.
She submitted to walk slowly on, with downcast eyes.
The mature young lady has mighty little need of powder, now, for her downcast face, as he escorts her in the light of the setting sun to their abode of bliss.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "downcast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
