What is "upthrust"

Usage examples of "upthrust".

Just a little upthrust of the tail-elevators and ailerons brought them again into the horizontal in a huge swoop.

Ripping off his cloak, Alec gathered the hem of it in one hand and tossed the other end at the upthrust corner, hoping to catch it with the hood.

I had the breasts of a woman, and very fine ones they were, too: shapely, upthrusting, ivory-skinned, with nicely large, fawn-colored areole around tumescent nipples, the whole array shining with sweat and a trickle meandering down the cleft between.

Below him the bank dropped abruptly, thirty feet or more, into the slavering side stream, swiftened by the presence of the upthrusting islands.

Also, figure 121 is a plain arch approximating a tented arch as the rising ridge cannot be considered an upthrust because it is a continuous, and not an ending, ridge.

A collection of upthrusting rocks from the midocean ridge, scarcely a quarter of a mile across, St.

Crit- tenden had drawn him a crude map yesterday, showing the town of Apache Peak nestled beneath the shadow of East Peak, the northeasternmost sentinel of the upthrust Whetstones.

For all we knew we were moving along an upthrust strip of rock no wider than our two feet, with fathomless abysses on either side.

Miss MacTavish: This is to notify you that payment on your account for three black silk negligees, Size 12, and four pairs Upthrust brassieres, 107 cm.

Steve spun sideways, his body helpless from the sudden upthrusting of the leg. Then he went limp, sagging in the harness.

With a growing, grating roar, it canted over on the stony rubble and rattled out into the room: a black catafalque whose upthrust electrum arms held aloft a coffin and several scepters for a few impressive moments before toppling over on its side and crashing into and through the floor.

Chapter Sixteen The village sprawled at the left of the road, silent in the dark, beneath a forested upthrust of rock that shadowed it from Anli's wan light: a motley gathering of stone houses, surrounded by a wall as high as a rider's head.

CHAPTER Sixteen The village sprawled at the left of the road, silent in the dark, beneath a forested upthrust of rock that shadowed it from Anli's wan light: a motley gathering of stone houses, surrounded by a wall as high as a rider's head.

It sprang from the ruddy strand, leaped the crimson tide, and dropped three miles away upon a precip itous, jagged upthrust of rock frowning black from the lac quered depths.

This time there was no glint in her eye, no upthrust breast or canted hip, just a frightening brokenness.