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uptilted

vb. (en-past of: uptilt)

Usage examples of "uptilted".

He looked forward with excitement, delight and sweating fear to the moment when, in the square, he would hear the clatter of the bull’s horns knocking against the wood of his travelling box, and then the sight of him as he came, sliding, braking out into the square, his head up, his nostrils wide, his ears twitching, dust in the sheen of his black hide, dried crut splashed on his flanks, watching his eyes set wide apart, unblinking eyes under the widespread horns as smooth and solid as driftwood polished by the sand, the sharp tips uptilted so that to see them did something to your heart.

And she blushed with he looked at her, and she sitting, her hands clasped around her knees and the shirt open at the throat, the cup of her breasts uptilted against the shirt, and as he thought of her, his throat was choky and there was a difficulty in walking and he and Anselmo spoke no more until the old man said, “Now we go down through these rocks and to the camp.

Green eyes, uptilted at the outer corners, had widened with fear, then quickly narrowed with anger as she'd pronounced the bonnet a gift from her da.

Catherine's green eyes, uptilted and once as bright as her daughter's, met Ruby's with a cool reminder that she wasn't dead yet and wasn't stupid either.

Her cheekbones were so high that they lent her face a feline cant, and her lips were full, blood-red, and uptilted at the corners as if caught in a perpetual smile.

Their starkly uptilted boughs, still bereft of their tumescing burdens, looked like black avenues of hafts as the sun fell through them.

Within the green mist, his head uptilted, Mister Snaith gave a reply, but the circuitous phrases were reminiscent of the words he had uttered earlier.

The piano was long and high – like a wooden yacht, with its uptilted sail – but the sounds he produced from it were tentative.

Hope soaring, they struggled on until he could see the long drift behind it and the Polarian bear outlined in faded blue paint on the uptilted tail.

Dismay checked him when he saw the wreck again, all of it except the uptilted bail buried under old snow and wind-blown dust.

His eyes drank her in, the high-cheekboned face, the wide-apart eyes, uptilted like a Eurasian's, her long swan's neck, the ripeness of her lips and he knew that she had managed t>

She moved swiftly and to good effect, limber as a dancer when she bent and turned, and able to sit comfortable as a Hindu, fawn rear propped on the uptilted backs of the boat shoes.

She leaned against the sink, elegant ankles crossed, uptilted the bottle, and drank until her eyes watered.

Resembling a chubby cheerful standup comic from the good old days before comedians turned lean, mean, and obscene, he sported a tiny mustache somewhat uptilted at the tips, giving him the appearance of a man who was perpetually smiling.

One of them, the obvious leader, sported a tiny uptilted mustache that made him look as if he were smiling.