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 ended she; and all the rest around To her redoubled26 that her undersong, Which said, their brydale day should not be long: And gentle Eccho from the neighbour27 ground Their accents did resound.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

The sound of the streams, as Ruskin has pointed out, is sweet and rhythmic to an extraordinary degree, combining with the sough of the winds to form an undersong of Nature's own melody.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

The saw hummed an undersong of strong vibration.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward