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

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

"Murmurs sweet undersong 'mid jasmin bowers" is a sweet line, and so are the three next.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles