undermost
Example Sentences
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In another moment the two figures rolled upon the deck, and the flaxen head was undermost.
From Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine by W. B. Gilbert
But this loving Christ goes down, down, down into the thickest, most pestilential atmosphere, reeking with sin and corruption, and stretches out a rescuing hand to the most abject and undermost of all the victims.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
A Protestant scholar, though one of the very undermost, escaped by the timbers arching over him and some of them slanting against the wall.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
The Spoke which now is highest in her Wheel may, when she gives it the next good Twist, be undermost as Nock.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala
The straight arm of the shears is the one to fix in the press, for if the bent arm be undermost, the knuckles are apt to be severely bruised against the end.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
