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

The afternoon was past its height, but bright yet, with the undersong of the wind and of Thunder Run.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

So ended she; and all the rest around To her redoubled26 that her undersong, Which said, their brydale day should not be long: And gentle Eccho from the neighbour27 ground Their accents did resound.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

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