Usage examples of "upcurve".
A flute player perched on the upcurved prow, piping the stroke, faster, faster, as the ornate vessel moved in view of the waiting crowd.
Some kind of yellow felt porkpie with black band and upcurved brim, it remained securely atop his brown thatch through whatever chaos ensued, thanks to a handy elastic string running under his chin.
She looked, to the upcurving horizon, saw an indistinct wavefront of runners coming down that apparent wall toward them, beyond the curtaining section arch.
This was a Hoka in shirt and trousers of coarse cloth, leather leggings, a chain-mail coat, a shaggy cape, a conical helmet with huge upcurving horns and an interminable sword.
It was like descending a ski jump except there was no upcurving jump ramp waiting at the bottom.
Tonight his thin, upcurving brows were a good brown, as were his long thick lashes.
A diameter of fifty feet spanned the base of upcurving walls and added to the impressive size.
The building is small, square, white, with a graceful blue tile roof with upcurving ends in the tradition of Chinese architecture.
When she tried to approach the judicial toadstool, however, it reached out to grip her upcurving tail in massive fingers, holding her back.
The buildings' pale-gold brick closed in on either side, bridges sliding over their heads, flotsam bobbing around their upcurved prow.
Would it,' he asked the ancestor, 'be a silver-gilt porringer on a circular moulded foot, the lower part chased with acanthus foliage, with beaded scroll handles, the cover surmounted by a foliage on a rosette of swirling acanthus leaves, the stand of tazza form on circular detachable feet with acanthus border joined to a multifoil plate, the palin top with upcurved rim?