down-cast

I listened attentively with down-cast eyes, praying he had not detected the awful judgments I made prior to knowing him at all.

Truth at a Bonsai Booth Paula Ray 2011

           Meir was humble, his face down-cast, his shoulders folded in across his chest like a dove's wings.

Heroic 2010

Roland Graeme approached her with beating heart and with down-cast eyes, and asked her, in a low and hesitating voice, whether the Queen were well?

The Abbot 2008

Not distinguishing aright my bash-ful gratitude, and down-cast eye, he might be afraid, lest I should add one to the half-score, that his sister says will die if he marry.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Then Fruen turns full-face towards me calmly, and says with down-cast eyes:

Under the Autumn Star 2003

Mary the Star of the Sea became my icon as a child, floating above the ocean in her blue veil, her head ringed by stars and tilted gently to one side, her eyes modestly down-cast as if in thought.

Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

Why to the man of untutored ideality, who happens to be but loosely acquainted with the peculiar character of the day, does the bare mention of Whitsuntide marshal in the fancy such long, dreary, speechless processions of slow-pacing pilgrims, down-cast and hooded with new-fallen snow?

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

She let some days go by to see if the child grew brighter and lost her down-cast appearance.

Heidi 2000

But she didn't care as much for his down-cast look and flush of embarrassment as she had expected.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

It was the first time Flinx had seen the merchant so down-cast.

The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983