underprop
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An acquaintance of Lowell’s bemoaned the habit Lowell had of “jumping at some general idea or theorem,” after which he “selects and bends facts to underprop that generalization.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
And so the food is taken to underprop The tottering joints, and by its interfusion To re-create their powers, and there stop up The longing, open-mouthed through limbs and veins, For eating.
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
But, I pray, doth the word underprop or approve the use of anything indifferent, if it be not used according to the foresaid rules, and, by consequence, conveniently and profitably?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
I can repair your leaky boots, And underlay your soles; Backsliders, I can underprop And patch up all your holes.
From Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Mackay, Charles
For those He loves that underprop With daily virtues Heaven’s top, And bear the falling sky with ease, Unfrowning caryatides.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Second, we were underpropped by more than an inch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor indeed can any party be so much strengthened and underpropped, as it will be weakened and undermined by such courses.
From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Barrow, Isaac
Trees newly planted must be supported, underpropped, strengthened and defended against all tempests, mischiefs, injuries, and calamities.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Some have I see even in their last sickness, set up in their deathbed, underpropped with pillows, take their playfellows to them and comfort themselves with cards.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica
The bear having seized the handle, was shaking it as well as Zbyszko, and notwithstanding the pain caused by every movement of the points imbedded in his breast, be would not let it be "underpropped."
From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Binion, Samuel A.
