undermost

Example Sentences

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The weight of this rottenness lay heaviest of all on the labouring poor, who stood undermost in the social scale.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

In another moment the two figures rolled upon the deck, and the flaxen head was undermost.

From Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine by Gilbert, W. B.

Sometimes Tom was undermost, sometimes Pete occupied that position.

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville

The undermost parts of a drop of water on a support are pressed against the support, and the upper parts are pressed against the lower parts because the latter cannot yield.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

But this loving Christ goes down, down, down into the thickest, most pestilential atmosphere, reeking with sin and corruption, and stretches out a rescuing hand to the most abject and undermost of all the victims.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander