undersong

Example Sentences

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The undersong of Dot’s unconscious gets lost in all the quotidian bustle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

The undersong here is underplumage: those jewel-like greens and purples and reds you can spot beneath the oil-slick surface of certain black-feathered birds.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017

The sympathy of spirits is the heart's undersong, and its warblings are heard in the quiet hours of solitude, as if they were from the soft voices of celestial choirs.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne

The skies are solemn with their throng Of choiring stars—and deep and strong The river moans an undersong.

From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various

And ever and anon, with singults rife, He cryed out, to make his undersong; Ah! my loves queene, and goddesse of my life, Who shall me pittie, when thou doest me wrong?

From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)