undersong

Example Sentences

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The undersong of Dot’s unconscious gets lost in all the quotidian bustle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

The undersong here is underplumage: those jewel-like greens and purples and reds you can spot beneath the oil-slick surface of certain black-feathered birds.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017

So ended she; and all the rest around To her redoubled that her undersong, Which said their brydale daye should not be long: And gentle Eccho from the neighbour ground Their accents did resound.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

But singular fiery moments do surprise      With dreadful or delicious divinations The whorls of our blue Labyrinth: the sweet      Blind sense of touch tells like an undersong Marvellous matters.

From The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Taylor, Rachel Annand

Between their kisses they spoke of things remembered, and of things to be, leaning to each other in visible sweetness, while "Love breathed in sighs and silences  Through two blent souls, one rapturous undersong."

From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston