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

Between their kisses they spoke of things remembered, and of things to be, leaning to each other in visible sweetness, while "Love breathed in sighs and silences  Through two blent souls, one rapturous undersong."

From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

The saw hummed an undersong of strong vibration.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward

So ended she: and all the rest around To her redoubled that her undersong, Which said their bridal day should not be long: And gentle Echo from the neighbor-ground Their accents did resound.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert