upglance meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

upglance

noun

Etymology From up- + glance.

An upwards glance.

See him bend over the woman, and the upglance of her eyes as she speaks.1885, Mary Greenway McClelland, Oblivion: An Episode, page 136:
"Well, we'll have a good start at all events," said Merle, with a merry little upglance.1917, Willis George Emerson, A Vendetta of the Hills, page 265:

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Nobody had as yet told Emily how very winsome that shy, sudden, upglance of hers was.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily of New Moon:
"Give it me!" she insisted; this with an impatient little stamp of the foot and an upglance of the compelling eyes that would have constrained me to do a far foolisher thing, had she asked it.2012, Francis Lynde, The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas, →ISBN:

verb

Etymology From up- + glance.

Obsolete To glance upwards.

I stood beside her couch, with her thin fingers clasped round my hand ever so long, looking down at the earnest eyes upglancing from the pillow.1864, Jenny Wren, Facts and fancies, in prose and verse, page 195:
Or the rapturous light that upglances From the eyes of a myriad Loves.1887, James Abraham Martling, Poems of Home and Country, page 300:

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All of a sudden upglances Æneas, and under a cliff on the left hand Sees broad battlements loom, by a tripple enclosure surrounded, Which, with its torrent of flame, the Tartarean Phlegethon's rapid River encircles, and hurls the reverberant rocks on its current.1888, Virgil (Oliver Crane, trans.), The Aeneid, page 116:
And with what eager enthusiasm it accepts its fate, dashing on side angles, surging against round, bossy knobs, swirling in pot holes, upglancing in shallow, curved basins, then bounding out over the brink and down the grand descent, more air than water, glowing like a sun beaten cloud.1890, John Muir, Picturesque Californa: