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

And yet to you and not to me belong   Those finer instincts that, like second sight And hearing, catch creation's undersong,       And see by inner light.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

The sound of the streams, as Ruskin has pointed out, is sweet and rhythmic to an extraordinary degree, combining with the sough of the winds to form an undersong of Nature's own melody.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

The sympathy of spirits is the heart's undersong, and its warblings are heard in the quiet hours of solitude, as if they were from the soft voices of celestial choirs.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne