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
Beneath the chorus of their hearts' joy there was an undersong of discord; and neither knew of the other's perplexity.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
So ended she; and all the rest around To her redoubled that her undersong*, 110 Which said, their brydale daye should not be long: And gentle Eccho from the neighbour ground Their accents did resound.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund
But singular fiery moments do surprise With dreadful or delicious divinations The whorls of our blue Labyrinth: the sweet Blind sense of touch tells like an undersong Marvellous matters.
From The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Taylor, Rachel Annand
