underflow

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Some think that the station dropped into an immense cave, and others that it was caused by the underflow of the Arkansas River, which is overflowing its banks at the present time.

From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 57, December 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Bishop, Julia Truitt

Though powerful to check, she ne'er could change The underflow and current of their life.

From Under King Constantine by Trask, Katrina

Final geological reports of the artesian and underflow investigation between the 97th meridian of longitude and the foothills of the Rocky mountains, to the Secretary of Agriculture.

From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled

Report of the special agent in charge of the artesian and underflow investigations, and of the irrigation inquiry.

From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled

She studied rather their common turn of phrase, its heights and its hollows, its exquisite illogic, its passionate underflow of poetry.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert