1 Then, striking upward, it threw a lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows.
2 Fifth Avenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the fashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and outspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality.
3 Her pale draperies, and the background of foliage against which she stood, served only to relieve the long dryad-like curves that swept upward from her poised foot to her lifted arm.
4 While he spoke she had moved slowly to the middle of the room, and paused near his writing-table, where the lamp, striking upward, cast exaggerated shadows on the pallour of her delicately-hollowed face.
5 Her poses were full of grace, and her little black-shod toes twinkled as they shot out and upward with a rapidity and suddenness which were bewildering.
6 It stood in a small side room which looked out across a narrow grass plot toward the shed, where there was a disabled boat lying keel upward.
7 He brushed the hair upward from the nape of her neck.
8 Her hands were clasped before her in prayer, but instead of looking upward toward that power which alone could rescue them, her unconscious looks wandered to the countenance of Duncan with infantile dependency.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 9 Her voice became choked, and clasping her hands, she looked upward, as if seeking, in her agony, intelligence from a wisdom that was infinite.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 10 More than once he halted to consult with his confederates, the Mohicans, pointing upward at the moon, and examining the barks of the trees with care.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 11 At that moment an enormous cloud seemed to pass suddenly above their heads, and, looking upward, they discovered that they stood beneath the wide folds of the standard of France.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 12 When in full view of the Delawares he stopped, and made a gesture of amity, by throwing his arm upward toward heaven, and then letting it fall impressively on his breast.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 13 The eyes of the old man opened heavily, and he once more looked upward at the multitude.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 14 I thought as much," returned the scout, glancing his eye upward at the opening in the tree-tops, "from the course it takes, and the bearings of the mountains.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 15 He did not stand stolidly baring his furry belly to the missile, and die with an upward glance at the sympathetic heavens.