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 afternoon was past its height, but bright yet, with the undersong of the wind and of Thunder Run.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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

And ever and anon, with singults rife, He cryed out, to make his undersong; Ah! my loves queene, and goddesse of my life, Who shall me pittie, when thou doest me wrong?

From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)