Optimistic view

Usage examples of upside.

The upside consists of an enhanced sensibility, which is, arguably, a more than adequate compensation.

The next turn around, Yang has worked his way up into the pack of Chinese, and it is little Bling who is bringing up the rear, looking as disheveled as ever in a U of Beijing track singlet, his number on upside down.

At her feet, Caille sat cross-legged with the tavern cat upside down in the cradle of her legs, its eyes squinched shut and its head flung blissfully back against her as she stroked its throat.

A raven swung upside down on a whalebone perch, making the soft chuffing noises of a bird whose vocal cords had felt the heat of a throat-iron upon hatching.

Upside, enslaved here to the shackles of righteous employment, too tired to think straight, and Chyde is free as a bee down Southstairs, out of mortal company, light, and beauty.

As clear and as clean as the sea was, even the lantern light at full night was enough to reveal the outlines of the small cog listing nearly upside down in the water.

I looked over his shoulder and saw a cuneiform inscription hanging on the wall upside down.

On the cover of the fourth issue, readers were startled to see the Escapist lift an entire panzer over his head, upside down, and tumble a pile of Gothsylvanian soldiers from its hatch like a kid shaking pennies out of a pig.

There was no leak from the gasolene tanks, which was one of the contingencies Tom feared, and, as he had said, the motors would work upside down as well as right side up, a fact he had proved more than once in his Hawk.

Eve, she was doing the kantirs of a fourth-level water flowing pattern when she saw Ghillie, upside down from her position at that moment, staring at her open-mouthed around the newel of the spiral stair.

The ginseng aroma made my eyes water, and I turned the casket upside down.

That, like his cousin Gis, who had found his true love when he had been so much younger than Ralph, he was committed to another, body and soul, and his world was turned upside down.

The fourth fellow followed with a pack tied across his back, a gittern hanging upside down upon it, and a spotted dog in his arms.

Angela lifted up the pot of boiling water and turned it upside down, dumping the cooked gnocchi into a colander.

In an argument, the truck would have the better of it far too quickly, simply by turning head-on, making for the body of the old jalopy and turning it upside down.