underflow

Example Sentences

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Its current, unripplingly smooth, but dimpled ever, and wrinkled with the whirls that mark an underflow deep and shady, bore on our bark.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

And yet behind that apparent incredulity in his voice and manner David sensed the deep underflow of another thing.

From The Flaming Forest by Curwood, James Oliver

Though powerful to check, she ne'er could change The underflow and current of their life.

From Under King Constantine by Trask, Katrina

She studied rather their common turn of phrase, its heights and its hollows, its exquisite illogic, its passionate underflow of poetry.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

The water is almost wholly taken from the rivers, but underflow is also utilized, especially in San Luis Park.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various