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 undersong of "Siloa's brook that flows, fast by the oracle of God," will many a time soothe and refresh your else dry and weary spirit.

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William

It called the support of The Examiner “the sweet undersong of the weekly journal.”

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette

So ended she: and all the rest around To her redoubled that her undersong, Which said their bridal day should not be long: And gentle Echo from the neighbor-ground Their accents did resound.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert