A few feet away was the body of an old man, his white hair clotted with blood from a bullet wound in the left temple; his sightless grey eyes upturned to the blue skies, as though in mute questioning.
Six, seven, eight," the pitifully few cartridges slipped through her hands until the last two lay in her upturned palm.
He smiled into the glowing, upturned face, thankful that it bore no resemblance to Glendon.
One saw lines and heaps of pressure dotted over the surface of the larger floes, but it was evident from the upturned slopes that the floes had been thin when these disturbances took place.
To-night I noticed a skua gull settle on an upturned block of ice at the edge of the floe on which several penguins were preparing for rest.
It is pretty to see the snow petrel and Antarctic petrel diving on to the upturned and flooded floes.
He explained in a few words the matter in hand; and the flash of her eyes, together with the smile that touched the upturned corners of her mouth, told how greatly to her liking was the duty to which she had been assigned.
Mary tightened her hold upon the slight form, and kissed the upturned face upon which the moonbeams were resting.
The girl looked with astonishment, and saw Aunt Penine prostrate upon the floor of the hall, her upturned face pale and distorted, as with pain.
God always speaks into the upturned ear and looks into the upturned face.
In desperate resolve to do her duty anyway, she tilted back her umbrella, whereat a fine stream of water poured from the tip directly over her upturned face, and trickled cheerily down the bridge of her short nose.
Then, with a sudden, rapturous gesture, he lifted his thin hands, and with his eyes upturned to the blue heaven, spoke.
It threw a strange light on the upturned face,--a face black as ebony, worn with suffering, but showing in every feature the refining touch of a noble spirit.
All he thought of was that upturned face with the strange unearthly light in its dark eyes, and the melody that swept over him.
As he was clambering out of the water on to the bottom of an upturned boat, he saw his "Chief Accountant" climbing up the other side, and the first thing he did was to reach out and shake hands with the A.
They had been drifting about for hours clinging to upturned boats and bits of gear that had floated clear of the wreckage.
She laid her chin in the upturned palms of her two hands, planting her elbows on her knees.
Upon this lay a man's upturned top-hat, in the corner of which reposed a pair of reindeer gloves.
She lay flat on her back now, her chalk-white face upturned in the sun.
He also wondered who Villard was--Villard with his fierce upturnedmustache after the style of von Hindenberg.
He reached up as high as he could, holding the rope firmly, and then swung himself out of the gallery over the black void, becoming visible to Will as the faint light from above fell upon his upturned face.
On the surface of the cold secret waters of the huge tank he saw a hideous object: the upturned face of a dead man, the face of Philip Ray.
The upturned face of the man smiled, and the voice of the man said, "Come down, my little fellow, and play with this boy.
Outside the stockade were grouped tents and upturned canoes, supported on paddles and poles.
A gust of wind bore the raft full on a jagged, upturned edge of rock, a sharp point penetrated between two of the slender poles and ripped through the fastenings.
They were forced to crawl under the upturned boat, and wait for the passing of the storm.
There was no golden sand, only sandstone rock in slanting, overlapping sheets and blocks with upturned edges.
Everything on the island was dripping wet, so they did not attempt to light a fire, but crept under the upturned canoe and wrapped themselves in their damp blankets.
At last, after Ronald had plunged down a steep slope into the water and narrowly missed drowning, and Jean had stumbled over the upturned edge of a broken block and wrenched his ankle, they gave up in despair.
Tail deeply forked and slightly shorter than wing; rectrices much narrower than in either Dicrurus or Chibia, the outermost pair slightly upturned at tips.
The nests were usually placed among the upturned roots of fallen trees which had become stranded in the river.
But mouth and nose and chin of the upturned face left an imperishable imprint upon her mind.
Aylward sat on the upturned keel of a skiff which lay upon the deck.
Behind him were a score of his knights, brilliant in silks and sarcenets, some seated on an upturned boat and some swinging their legs from the bulwark.
The multitude, the gesture and song, all moved in that direction, the flow of people smote downward until the upturned faces were below the level of his feet.
Looking down the effect was a vast area of stippled pink, each dot a still upturned face regarding him.
Mrs. Mandeville's only answer was to stoop and kiss the boy's upturned face.
He lay on his back, on the soft turf beneath an oak, with his hands clasped behind his head and his eyes upturned to the blue sky showing between leaf and branch.
Then he took a step and stood looking into Stafford's upturned face.
Wrenching it rudely enough from her, I ran forward to restore it to Mr. Brooke, and found the old man's dead body lying on the sands, with its convulsed face upturned to the moonlight.
I see it always as I did that night, upturned in the moonbeams, dead and white.
Reine, how lovely you are," he murmurs, bending to kiss the upturned lips.
Having delivered this oracular rebuke to the scorners, she resumed her butter-making with renewed energy, none the less for the swift glance and smile of approval she had seen on Evan's quickly upturned face.
Their faces were upturned to the blaze, all eyes wide open, all lips parted, all steps arrested.
There were no groans, few tears, and those unconsciously shed, rolling down the upturned face, which never for a moment looked away from the preacher.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upturned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
