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 having said, away she softly past; Weepe, Shepheard! weepe, to make mine undersong.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

The devils' tattoo on the roof had sunk to a mere undersong, a fitting accompaniment as it were to the electricity in the room.

From The Lamp in the Desert by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

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