undersong
Example Sentences
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The undersong of Dot’s unconscious gets lost in all the quotidian bustle.
From Los Angeles Times ā 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 ā Jun. 12, 2017
"Murmurs sweet undersong 'mid jasmine bowers" is a sweet line and so are the 3 next.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb ā Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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 Sir Hall Caine
So having said, away she softly past; Weepe, Shepheard! weepe, to make mine undersong.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
