underpants
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He was “constantly the victim of some fair enslaver“—at least, when it was not the other way about; and there were often underplots and secondary fair enslavers in the background.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
On these "coquettes of the second table," on these underplots in the drama, much of the comedy, and some of the tragedy, of life depend.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 03 by Edgeworth, Maria
Her story is a psychological curiosity; and, interwoven as it was with the underplots of the time, we cannot observe it too accurately.
From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony
Thus by one of those petty underplots of life, which, often unknown to us, are continually going on, our young physician was brought into a situation where he had an opportunity of showing his abilities.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Edgeworth, Maria
In the articles in the Adventurer on the Tempest and King Lear, Joseph Warton repeats the standard objection to tragi-comedy and underplots.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
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