Upturned

And even if the messenger were not curious about these subtleties, the duke would likely have pointed them out, jesting that the intarsists had absentmindedly left the bench below the portrait of Faith "upturned," hiding the third ermine. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The men who built barrels—one of the major industries of the early American economy—were normally paid for six days of work, but on Saturday they began drinking beer in the morning, then would “sit around upturned barrels playing poker,” and generally “lounged about” until they received their weekly pay. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

By day, "Chris" addressed car workers through a bullhorn on an upturned milk crate while by night "Christopher" wore a dinner jacket to address the Oxford Union or dine with the Warden of All Souls. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Photographs of the serene Springs setting where Pollock and Lee Krasner lived and worked, some with Krasner posing, another with girlfriend Ruth Kligman, another with the fatal car upturned, collaged with cancelled checks, or snapshots, some pornographic. ❋ Regina Weinreich (2011)

In the sheltered shallows a few bar-tailed godwits are probing the wet sand with their long, pinkish, very slightly upturned bills. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Weave your own lashes with the upturned fake eyelashes using your favorite mascara. ❋ Eve Pearl (2011)

He makes a tiny gesture with his hands, opening them like upturned cups and spreading them apart: the semaphore of self-deprecation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Some admirable people have wells of patience for this kind of thing: these are the sporting world's natural pastors, happy to welcome anyone into the flock, always on hand to demonstrate the offside rule with an upturned chopping board and a Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While his left palm is held open and upturned, as if weighing the words he is about to utter in a tone of barely suppressed exasperation, the other hand will be clenched, only the index finger emerging to jab downwards in repeated emphasis. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You know the climactic scene from Brain Dead in which our hero ploughs through a crowd of zombies with an upturned power mower? ❋ Mark Kermode (2010)

You may, at this point, decide to put an upturned colander on your head and make high-pitched squeaky sounds while turning the light on and off, depending on who might be watching, and whether you are six. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She sat through one whole day with me thus, and for hours I could have thought her asleep were it not for the waves of feeling which surged in her upturned face. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I reach out, upturned palm, and catch empty answers that trickle through my fingers, reaching, always reaching. ❋ Paula Ray (2010)

The sled itself was without runners, being a birch-bark toboggan, with upturned forward end to keep it from ploughing under the snow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

College Student 1: "My word, Lawrence, do you see that fellow student with the most audacious dress?" College Student 2: "[Egads]! The youth with the upturned collar? Why, he must be [visually impaired] -- indeed, certainly! -- for he cannot see his current physical state; naturally, if he could, he would relieve his collar of its outdated duty [posthaste]!" College Student 1: "Quite." ❋ Suave Slav (2006)

[Look at that] guy with an [upturned collar], what a [dickhead] ❋ NotSoSmartPerson (2018)