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 Alexander Johnstone Wilson
Hecuba, taking one of these which was most beauteous with various hues, and largest, brought it as a gift to Minerva; and it glittered like a star, and lay the undermost of all.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
Rusty cables and chains, ropes and rings, undermost parts of posts and piles and confused timber defences against the waves, lie strewn about, in a brown litter of tangled seaweed and fallen cliff.
From Dickens' London by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
In his original constitution these occupied definite relations of superiority and subordination to one another, the spirit being supreme, the body undermost, and the soul occupying the middle position.
From The Life of St. Paul by James Stalker
What was undermost should be topmost, and what was topmost should be undermost!—See there, now! his leg is longer than mine!—whip it off, and away with it!
From A Christmas Greeting by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
