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He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall.

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 Meanings and Examples of CAST
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cast
 v.  throw with force; hurl; deposit or indicate; choose actor for; give a form to; arrange
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  This reasoning was clear and instantaneous; so that without giving time to the Inquisitor to recover from his surprise, he pierced him through and through, and cast him beside the Jew.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking measures and calculations with his eyes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
3  The sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was radiant.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
4  He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
5  The child was standing with his back to the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
6  Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, which is waiting to be put away somewhere.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
7  Javert went on, with a severe air and his eyes still cast down.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
8  By the light which they cast he was able to distinguish the form of this vehicle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
9  The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
10  He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which had not been disturbed for three days.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
11  Three hundred dead bodies were cast into it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
12  Eponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
13  The Thenardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight of Cosette in her ecstasy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
14  The child cast a melancholy glance before her and behind her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
15  There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
Example Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
16  She cast a welcoming smile in his direction.
17  The director gave the cast a short respite before the next scene.
18  The director cast John as Hamlet.
19  The director cast me as a mad priest.
20  He cast his expert eye on the gardener's work.
21  I would be grateful if he could cast an expert eye over it and tell me what he thought of it.
22  The figure was cast in bronze.
23  When Henry became King, he cast aside all his former friends.
24  For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
25  She cast an anguished look at Guy.
26  By this means the meddlesome woman cast in a bone between the wife and the husband.
27  The big hitters in the cast include Michael Caine and Ewan McGregor.
28  He's got his leg in a plaster cast.
29  The media cast him as the devil incarnate.
30  They're auditioning for new members of the cast for "Miss Saigon" today.