underflow

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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

Some think that the station dropped into an immense cave, and others that it was caused by the underflow of the Arkansas River, which is overflowing its banks at the present time.

From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 57, December 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Bishop, Julia Truitt

However, here, as in the Chaco, there is an underflow, which the Indians know how to utilize and from which they can always obtain a sufficient supply of potable water.

From Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898 by Mindeleff, Cosmos

A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, presenting with extraordinary power the siege of Constantinople, and lighting its tragedy with the warm underflow of an Oriental romance.

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin

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