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His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOWNCAST
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downcast
 a.  low in spirits; depressed; directed downward
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  Madame Odintsov looked at him twice, not stealthily, but straight in the face, which was bilious and forbidding, with downcast eyes, and contemptuous determination stamped on every feature, and thought: 'No.'
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  Bazarov sat with downcast looks, and had not touched a single dish.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  "Sell me the missis," said another soldier, addressing the German, who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast eyes.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
4  Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and pondered.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
5  Pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at Dolokhov or answering him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV
6  said Denisov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XVI
7  Prince Andrew came up to her with downcast eyes.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIII
8  Sonya listened silently with downcast eyes to the countess' cruel words, without understanding what was required of her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XIII
9  Balashev stood with downcast eyes, looking at the movements of Napoleon's stout legs and trying to avoid meeting his eyes.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
10  Ignat left off smiling, adjusted his belt, and went out of the room with meekly downcast eyes.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXII
11  His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
12  After looking a little at her downcast eyes as she walked beside me, I gave up that point.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXV
13  So, I walked a little further with Biddy, looking silently at her downcast eyes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXV
14  "And yet it looked so like it, sir," I pleaded with a downcast heart.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
15  My spirits sank under these words, and I became very downcast and heavy of heart.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
Example Sentence:
1  Cheerful and optimistic by nature, Beth was never downcast despite the difficulties she faced.