Downcast Sentence Examples

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  • Prince Andrew came up to her with downcast eyes.

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  • Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and pondered.

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  • Finally he brushed the hay from his shirt and jeans, his gaze downcast as he spoke.

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  • God is my witness, I didn't know-" he repeated, stressing the word "God" so unnaturally and so unpleasantly that Princess Mary stood with downcast eyes not daring to look either at her father or at Natasha.

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  • Balashev stood with downcast eyes, looking at the movements of Napoleon's stout legs and trying to avoid meeting his eyes.

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  • Pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at Dolokhov or answering him.

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  • He rode hurriedly from the battlefield and returned to the Shevardino knoll, where he sat on his campstool, his sallow face swollen and heavy, his eyes dim, his nose red, and his voice hoarse, involuntarily listening, with downcast eyes, to the sounds of firing.

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  • Ignat left off smiling, adjusted his belt, and went out of the room with meekly downcast eyes.

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  • In a mine with shafts opening at the same level, natural ventilation once established will be effective during cold weather, as the downcast will have the temperature of the outside air, while the upcast will be filled with the warm air of the mine.

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  • I was beyond being scared, but more than a little downcast at what my fate may be.

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  • Al Mansour noticed that the merchant was very sad and downcast.

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  • In any case whether natural or artificial means be employed, a mine can only be ventilated properly when it has at least two distinct openings to the surface, one an intake or " downcast," the other a chimney serving as an " upcast."

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  • The use of two independent connexions - whether separate pits or sections of the same pit, between the surface and the workings - is necessary for the service of the ventilation, fresh air from the surface being carried down one, known as the " downcast," while the foul or return air of the mine rises through the other or " upcast " pit back to the surface.

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  • When the mine is free from gas, the furnace may be worked by the return air, but it is better to take fresh air directly from the downcast by a scale, or split, from the main current.

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  • With scarcely any neck, he had round shoulders, a broad face with a flat nose, a thin beard, and squinting eyes, which were generally downcast.

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  • Teal'c made occasional visits to the Land of Light, returning either with a face of thunder or looking downcast - almost browbeaten.

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  • Feedback Modify Exercise 1 so that it uses instanceof to check the type before performing the downcast.

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  • The second syntax for RTTI is called a " type-safe downcast.

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  • And all the village wondered as he passed What made the change, what made him so downcast.

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  • A colleague of mine, a woman, came to work one morning, looking very downcast and not herself.

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  • Even Frank seemed somewhat downcast â a bad sign, as heâs normally a cheery soul, despite the anger raging inside him.

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  • The Aussies start expressing their support for their fella and the Australian Alps are still full, if slightly downcast.

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  • We are not always habited, and rarely to be seen with hands folded and eyes downcast!

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  • Head slightly bowed, face downcast, lips pursed; this is a wise, withdrawn Mehmed.

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  • Annie, tho, looked downcast, so he changed his mind again and they went round the park once more.

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  • The day just sort of dissolved at the end and I for one left feeling slightly downcast.

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  • Sinking the downcast shaft (Number 1 shaft) started early September 1924 after the colliery headgear had been constructed.

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  • Sonya listened silently with downcast eyes to the countess' cruel words, without understanding what was required of her.

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  • Create a Rhomboid, upcast it to a Shape, then downcast it back to a Rhomboid.

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  • He also criticized the positioning of lamp stations, between which and the downcast shaft naked lights and unlocked lamps were allowed.

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  • This is effected by carrying through the workings a large volume of air which is kept continually moving in the same direction, descending from the surface by one or more pits known as intake or downcast pits, and leaving the mine by a return or upcast pit.

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