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
The skies are solemn with their throng Of choiring stars—and deep and strong The river moans an undersong.
From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various
"Murmurs sweet undersong 'mid jasmin bowers" is a sweet line, and so are the three next.
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb
Ah! many an hour I sat and read, And God seemed with me all day long; Joy murmured a sweet undersong, I talkt with angels, with them fed.
From International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 by Various
