undersong
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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
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 R. W. (Richard William) Church
The devils' tattoo on the roof had sunk to a mere undersong, a fitting accompaniment as it were to the electricity in the room.
From The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
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
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