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  • On the edge of the clearing, with its back to the river, a low but with walls of orange laterite plastered with mud and a thatched roof nestled close to the ground, as though it was listening to a whispered subterranean secret.†   (source)
  • His voice was very deep, a subterranean rumble.†   (source)
  • I have the means to expose your subterranean existence, and you are powerless to stop me.†   (source)
  • It was clammy in the basement, an ugly subterranean chill.†   (source)
  • After maybe thirty seconds, I know I can't stand being confined in the subterranean cell, and leave Buttercup to his own devices.†   (source)
  • The water was pooling in a little canal, as if the sand were seeping into a subterranean crack.†   (source)
  • The comlog compares the Cleft to the pre-tCrraformed Mariner Valley on Mars, both being caused by the weakening of crust through periodic freeze and thaw over the aeons, followed by the flow of subterranean rivers such as the Kans.†   (source)
  • Given that it's subterranean, the place seems surprisingly vast, the ceilings high.†   (source)
  • But he's also writing about places we can call home: the flat or gently rolling ground of limestone country, with its fertile fields and abundant groundwater, with its occasional subterranean caves, and most important with its non-sublime but also nonthreatening vistas.†   (source)
  • I walk past him and into a low-ceilinged room with several desks and subterranean windows that look up onto the street.†   (source)
  • She remembered some lines of a poem by Arnulf 0verland: Wakened one night by a curious dreamand a voice that seemed to be speaking to melike a far-off subterranean stream,I rose and asked: What do you want of me?†   (source)
  • And now we entered what appeared to be a vast subterranean ballroom, carved, as it were, out of a cellar more ancient than the building overhead.†   (source)
  • It's still warm; there are clouds of midges under the trees and the sunshine is streaming through the leaves, bathing the path in an oddly subterranean light.†   (source)
  • The locker room was filled with shouts, echoes, and the subterranean sound of showers splashing on tile.†   (source)
  • Reaching the subterranean entrance of her building, she has taken all metal objects from her pockets and removed what little jewelry she's wearing and dumped them into a dirty plastic bowl and walked through the detector.†   (source)
  • Or maybe the lair was subterranean, underneath this very commonplace strip mall nestled up against a wooded hill in a nice family neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Miguel rented a small apartment near the place where he worked, and this was where they made love; in the year they had spent frisking naked in the basement they had both contracted chronic bronchitis, which dampened somewhat the attraction of their subterranean paradise.†   (source)
  • For this was the time of their greatest victories over the subterranean hostility of a milieu that resisted accepting them as they were: different and modern, and for that reason transgressors against the traditional order.†   (source)
  • The golden fish swam by gracefully, cautiously, as if testing the water after a long sleep in his subterranean waters.†   (source)
  • It had taken them two days to traverse the subterranean passage from Farthen Dur, though it felt longer to Eragon, due to the never-ending dusk that surrounded them and the silence it had imposed upon their group.†   (source)
  • Meltwater sluiced furiously down innumerable surface and subterranean channels, creating a ghostly harmonic rumble that resonated through the body of the glacier.†   (source)
  • For twenty minutes, the rails clacked beneath us, the posts holding up the rock roof blurring past like a subterranean forest of gray tree trunks.†   (source)
  • For he thought he heard a soft tread off in the subterranean vaults.†   (source)
  • Because his coolness and self-confidence is subterranean, springing from beneath his casual demeanor, it's important that surface issues, like how clean you keep your room, are afterthoughts.†   (source)
  • I traveled to the coastal lowlands of Texas and watched men in moon suits bury drums of dangerous waste in subterranean salt beds many millions of years old, dried-out remnants of a Mesozoic ocean.†   (source)
  • The subterranean rumbling subsided to quiet as the hall smoothed its rough edges into crisp, cosmetic perfection.†   (source)
  • The trees were dry and stubby, the mound was barren, and my attention was arrested by a water faucet sticking two feet out of the sand, like some subterranean periscope.†   (source)
  • They drew up specifications for the backbone of Iwo Jima's defense—a subterranean cave system connected by tunnels.†   (source)
  • From this aperture, the subterranean rivers traveling under sixty-two kilometers of ice shot into the open with an airblast like a jet engine's exhaust.†   (source)
  • I neglected to tell you that in order to improve the subterranean detonation characteristics of the atomic device, all air is evacuated from Level V, beginning thirty seconds before explosion.†   (source)
  • The key that would unlock the subterranean door that led to Carlos the Jackal, the assassin who wanted only to destroy David Webb and his family.†   (source)
  • Treebeard rumbled for a moment, as if he were pronouncing some deep, subterranean Entish malediction.†   (source)
  • But suddenly, a crash of sound jarred the room, almost as if a subterranean blast had struck the walls and made them tremble.†   (source)
  • He had lived the majority of his life traveling tunnels in the lightless subterranean world of his people, and his large eyes guided him in absolute darkness more accurately than in areas of light.†   (source)
  • A deep subterranean, biologically secure complex near Manassas, Virginia.†   (source)
  • Terrible noises are coming from him and from the dogs as if there is a conversation between them that is subterranean, volcanic.†   (source)
  • Early in the spring of 1943, the mine began to flood with water from subterranean springs.†   (source)
  • A subterranean stream ran past on one side of it.†   (source)
  • The school has adopted many of the odd, quirky mannerisms of Charleston itself, an osmotic, subterranean effect, and each has shaped the other, magnified the other's flaws, reinforced the other's strengths.†   (source)
  • Down in the West Indies, in the Lesser Antilles system, starting in an arc heading southeasterly from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands toward South America, are those islands north, of Guadeloupe which represent the high points of a subterranean ridge ranging from forty to two hundred miles in width.†   (source)
  • The prodigious subterranean castle of salt which she has visited often and which may or may not be, as the Professor claims, one of Europe's seven man-made wonders, is less an anticlimax in itself than a spectacle which simply fails to register on her awareness, so agitated has she been made by this indefinable whatever-it-is—this infatuation—which has struck her with the random heat of a lightning bolt, making her weak and a little ill.†   (source)
  • In the depths where his turbulent broodings moved, the solemn judgments of psychiatry, sociology, and the like, however sound, were frail sticks beating a subterranean sea.†   (source)
  • He did not know whether it was just a pool in the path, or the edge of an underground stream that crossed the passage, or the brink of a deep dark subterranean lake.   (source)
  • Sato asked, faint wisps of steam curling out of her mouth in the cold subterranean air.†   (source)
  • The Labyrinth intersects with subterranean places all around the world.†   (source)
  • The subterranean space in which Mal'akh performed the Art was ingeniously hidden.†   (source)
  • Most subterranean passages do, eventually.†   (source)
  • Dr. Vetra's lab is subterranean," Kohler said.†   (source)
  • The Holo can show subterranean as well as street-level pods.†   (source)
  • His face was greenish in the subterranean light.†   (source)
  • Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt like he had just emerged from some kind of subterranean birth canal.†   (source)
  • I can use any subterranean gateway—even this arch—to access the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • The swift black eddies of the subterranean river were suddenly horrible to me.†   (source)
  • The lyrics took on a whole new meaning in a subterranean dwarf world.†   (source)
  • It had little impact on the subterranean enemy.†   (source)
  • The bombardment had not touched the subterranean issen gorin.†   (source)
  • Soon, said the artists, ignoring him, there would be nothing left but a series of long subterranean tubes covering the surface of the planet.†   (source)
  • As the eminent French philosopher and scientist Maine de Biran had said, there was an inner New World to be discovered, for which one must "plunge into the subterranean caverns of the soul."†   (source)
  • I was subterranean, out of range.†   (source)
  • In the daytime it was hardly noticeable, but here, in a dark subterranean chamber, I looked like a human night-light.†   (source)
  • The comlog compares the Cleft to the pre-terraformed Mariner Valley on Mars, both being caused by the weakening of crust through periodic freeze and thaw over the aeons, followed by the flow of subterranean rivers such as the Kans.†   (source)
  • At that moment, beneath them, in the bank's cavernous subterranean vault, a robotic claw sprang to life.†   (source)
  • Hummocks rose from the ground like the backs of great subterranean beasts breaking the surface, yawning black mouths leading down to cool and cavernous storerooms below.†   (source)
  • We ducked behind the counter, charged through the kitchen doors, and found ourselves in a subterranean amphitheater that looked centuries old.†   (source)
  • Walt and I scrambled backward as more stones fell into the pit, and I realized I'd just destabilized the entire roof of a subterranean room.†   (source)
  • Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Running through caverns of darkness.... — HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," 1858.†   (source)
  • A creeping, subterranean existence in this house, supported by Momma, watching game shows and soap operas all day on television at Mrs. Garrison's house when she had Carrie In To Visit (Mrs. Garrison was eighty-six), walking down to the Center to get a malted after supper at the Kelly Fruit when it was deserted, getting fatter, losing hope, losing even the power to think?†   (source)
  • The museum's various levels were comprised of vast caverns linked by a network of subterranean streets, tunnels, staircases, elevators, escalators, ladders, slides, trapdoors, and secret passageways.†   (source)
  • The whispers had turned to shouts in recent decades when ground-penetrating radar revealed the presence of an astonishing structure beneath the chapel—a massive subterranean chamber.†   (source)
  • The colossal subterranean hollow was filled with crumbling mausoleums, like small houses on the floor of a cave.†   (source)
  • Constructed in warm ocher marble to be compatible with the honey-colored stone of the Louvre facade above, the subterranean hall was usually vibrant with sunlight and tourists.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra had wanted to intercept him, to throw the canister back into its subterranean hiding place, to run outside for cover.†   (source)
  • The African American man leading Langdon through the Capitol's subterranean maze was clearly someone of power.†   (source)
  • Described as an underground city to rival parts of Disney World, this subterranean space reportedly provided over a half-million square feet of space for exhibits, restaurants, and meeting halls.†   (source)
  • According to accounts from the select few clergy who had descended over the years, the Necropolis was a dark maze of subterranean crypts that could swallow a visitor whole if he lost his way.†   (source)
  • There in the center, plunging into the earth like a crystal chasm, gaped the giant inverted pyramid of glass that he had seen a few nights ago when he entered the Louvre's subterranean entresol.†   (source)
  • The Knights Templar had designed Rosslyn Chapel as an exact architectural blueprint of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem—complete with a west wall, a narrow rectangular sanctuary, and a subterranean vault like the Holy of Holies, in which the original nine knights had first unearthed their priceless treasure.†   (source)
  • The new security checkpoint for tourists entering the Capitol Building is located deep within the recently completed subterranean visitor center, beneath a magnificent glass skylight that frames the Capitol Dome.†   (source)
  • Dwarves are subterranean creatures.†   (source)
  • Underneath them, like a subterranean platform, holding them up, is a row of iconic-looking symbols painted in the flat style of Egyptian tomb frescoes, each one enclosed in a white sphere: a red rose, an orange maple leaf, a shell.†   (source)
  • Above the gusts of their respiration, Eragon caught thetink, clink, clatter of a stone falling somewhere in the tangle of branching tubes and the steadydoink ....doink ....doink of condensed droplets striking the drumlike surface of a subterranean pool.†   (source)
  • The Mark of Athena blazed to life at the bottom of the cavern, revealing glistening brickwork along a subterranean canal forty feet below.†   (source)
  • They covered the table, standing in orderly rows of four and marching away into the subterranean dimness.†   (source)
  • Minutes later, they had piled into another one of the floating pods and were whisked off on brisk rounds of subterranean wheat fields and orchards and greenhouses, all illuminated by artificial sunlight and manned by robotic, spidery farmhands or actual humans who enjoyed the activity.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him that Hax in his dirty whites, walk-king around and around his steaming, subterranean kitchen, had more honor than this.†   (source)
  • For now, it felt like he wanted me, and that was enough to offset the horror of the subterranean tunnel and the prowling vampires behind us.†   (source)
  • I was unable to find any further mention of subterranean activities in or around Dras-Leona, until—" Putting down the red volume, he selected another book, this one a massive, wood-paneled tome nearly a foot thick.†   (source)
  • Rain fell softly on town cupolas, chuckled from rainspouts, and spoke in strange subterranean tongues beneath the windows where Jim and Will knew fitful dreams, slipping out of one, trying another for size, but finding all cut from the same dark, mouldered cloth.†   (source)
  • From here you descend in an elevator past five subterranean levels, where much of the work of Project 99 is conducted.†   (source)
  • The vault opened onto one of the tunnels the brothers called the wormwalks, winding subterranean passages that linked the keeps and towers of Castle Black under the earth.†   (source)
  • in incandescent vests and she watched the tourists snapping pictures and thought of the trip she'd made to Rome many years ago, for study and spiritual renewal, and she'd swayed beneath the great domes and prowled the catacombs and church basements and this is what she thought as the riders came up to the street, how she'd stood in a subterranean chapel in a Capuchin church and could not take her eyes off the skeletons stacked there, wondering about the monks whose flesh had once decorated these metatarsals and femurs and skulls, many skulls heaped in alcoves and hidey-holes, and she remembered thinking vindictively that these are the dead who will come out of the earth to lash and cudge†   (source)
  • Instead, among this moonscape of boulders and blue ice, where pebbles he kicked would disappear down crevasses for seconds, before splashing into subterranean rivers, it burned with a nostalgic warmth, a beacon from the country he had once called home.†   (source)
  • It's your subterranean system.†   (source)
  • Such warnings ultimately made their last stand in the line that formed last night outside the door of the dark, noisy subterranean cave, a line in which Cedric was standing—the last of six kids from the hall-and then suddenly wasn't.†   (source)
  • Nowhere at Rowan was Astaroth's elimination of modern electricity more apparent than in this enormous, subterranean space, in which candles and lanterns now flickered from the alcoves.†   (source)
  • He felt as if he were trapped in a subterranean vault and the lock could never be broken again-and as if he were held on display in the sight of the whole city below, hoping that the lock would hold out for eternity.†   (source)
  • The Workshop was a techno-centric society—a scientific faction that had splintered off from Rowan long ago and now lived within a network of self-sufficient subterranean cities.†   (source)
  • Besides, he was coherent enough to realize that stumbling, at night, over a shifting glacier, where crevasses yawned hundreds of feet down through wastes of blue ice into subterranean pools, was far more dangerous.†   (source)
  • The root of that feeling was the moments when she had stopped in sudden astonishment in some dark subterranean corner and had heard the words half-stated in her mind: This is my railroad-as she looked at a vault vibrating to the sound of distant wheels; this is my life-as she felt the clot of tension, which was the stopped and the suspended within herself; this is my love-as she thought of the man who, perhaps, was somewhere in those tunnels.†   (source)
  • He remembered where he had seen that gown before, he remembered the man facing him across a breakfast table in the Wayne-Falkland Hotel, he remembered that man coming, unannounced, to her office late on a Thanksgiving night-and the realization that he should have known it, came to him as two subterranean jolts of a single earthquake: it came with a feeling that screamed "No!" so savagely that the scream, not the sight, brought down every girder within him.†   (source)
  • Suribachi's interior had been hollowed out into a fantastical seven-story subterranean world, fortified with concrete revetments and finished off with plastered walls, a sewer system, and conduits for fresh air, electricity, water, and steam.†   (source)
  • There was an immense sighing and moaning, like a subterranean bellows breathing in the lost catacombs.†   (source)
  • They used no sirens, but she could feel them coming, moving toward her like subterranean creatures pressing mysteriously upward out of darkness into the cellar and on to the kitchen where she sat, to nibble her bones.†   (source)
  • But there was something else, something darker, subterranean, and inexpressible about the man, which caused me to pity him deeply and tenderly.†   (source)
  • The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence to reign there, though it was hooped round by all the roar of the elements.†   (source)
  • Some subterranean stream found an outlet here, was released from darkness.†   (source)
  • He would drill down next to the clinic for subterranean hot water, to fill hot-springs baths.†   (source)
  • The Orkney faction could only grumble, a distant and almost subterranean complaint.†   (source)
  • Quiet Odor of ashes, the cold subterranean breath of chimneys.†   (source)
  • The clay walls of their pit were much higher than their heads; behind their huddled backs there was a wide fissure, a window in the earth which opened on some dark subterranean passage.†   (source)
  • They were down in some subterranean place — the bottom of a well, for instance, or a very deep grave — but it was a place which, already far below him, was itself moving downwards.†   (source)
  • A new, brass padlock gleamed at their seam-too many of the rabbi's pupils had been banging them on their subterranean way into the cheder yard.†   (source)
  • And thus by degrees was lit, half-way down the spine, which is the seat of the soul, not that hard little electric light which we call brilliance, as it pops in and out upon our lips, but the more profound, subtle and subterranean glow which is the rich yellow flame of rational intercourse.†   (source)
  • They went to the place where the smoke rose, and they found it came from the smoke hole of a subterranean chamber.†   (source)
  • Pain and jealousy, envy and desire, and something deeper than they are, stronger than love and more subterranean.†   (source)
  • And then we came to the proud class of the hotel and its Jupiter's heaviness and restless marble detail, seeking to be more and more, introducing another pot too huge for flowers, another carved figure, another white work of iron; and inside luxuriously warm—even the subterranean garage where I parked had this silky warmth.†   (source)
  • A sound of subterranean flute playing came up and was almost lost in the steady remorseless persistence of the drums.†   (source)
  • (it was 1860, even Mr Coldfield probably admitted that war was unavoidable) when the destiny of Sutpen's family which for twenty years now had been like a lake welling from quiet springs into a quiet valley and spreading, rising almost imperceptibly and in which the four members of it floated in sunny suspension, felt the first subterranean movement toward the outlet, the gorge which would be the land's catastrophe too, and the four peaceful swimmers turning suddenly to face one another, not yet with alarm or distrust but just alert, feeling the dark set, none of them yet at that point where man looks about at his companions in disaster and thinks When will I stop trying to save the†   (source)
  • There had been heads of enemies erected on poles for decoration, and their king had built himself an underground treasure chamber which was also a subterranean passage for escape.†   (source)
  • The Kreindls had put her in Kotzie's room, which had only a small window with bars on the passage where people ducked through the brick subterranean vault on a shortcut through the alley or stopped to take a leak.†   (source)
  • A few years later, a subterranean waterway began to undermine it, and she saw to its replacement with a more modern building, of reinforced concrete, with single and double rooms fitted with Western-style washbasins and toilets.†   (source)
  • He would pull fat fish from subterranean pools, his great earth cellars would be stocked with old wine, he could loot the world of its treasures, including the handsomest women, and never be caught.†   (source)
  • and complete, not aged, just overdue because of some caesarean lack, some cold head-nuzzling forceps of the savage time which should have torn me free, I waited not for light but for that doom which we call female victory which it endure and then endure, without rhyme or reason or hope of reward—and then endure; I like that blind subterranean fish, that insulated spark whose origin the fish no longer remembers, which pulses and beats at its crepuscular and lethargic tenement with the old unsleeping itch which has no words to speak with other than 'This was called light; that 'smell; that 'touch; that other something which has bequeathed not even name for sound of bee or bird o†   (source)
  • The summit of the tree rose over the seven heaven-floors and served as a tethering post for the High God, Yryn-ai-tojon; while the roots penetrated into the subterranean abysses, where they formed the pillars of the dwellings of the mythical creatures proper to that zone.†   (source)
  • That humiliated, bandy-legged, weak-haired, and injured-in-the-eyes Sylvester, however, the subterranean draftsman and comedy commissar of a Soviet-America-to-be, teaching himself the manner and even the winner's smile and confidence, why, he was going to blast off the old travertine and let the gold and marble shine for a fresh humanity.†   (source)
  • She suddenly wondered what subterranean connection her interest in Erik had with this affair.†   (source)
  • I thought of subterranean passages and springs.†   (source)
  • Plainly, this second species of Man was subterranean.†   (source)
  • It was all very secret and subtle and subterranean.†   (source)
  • 'Subterranean volcanic fires are raging beneath our feet.'†   (source)
  • with visiting the subterranean drains of Paris, had halted.†   (source)
  • There can be no doubt; a subterranean river is flowing around us.†   (source)
  • All night he heard the subterranean workman, who continued to mine his way.†   (source)
  • No doubt in the subterranean palace Gaetano told you of.†   (source)
  • No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean crisis, which was already perceptible.†   (source)
  • I shuddered at the thought of being lost in the mazes of this vast subterranean labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Pearls fell drop by drop, as subterranean waters filter in their caves.†   (source)
  • But this one displays a peculiarity confined to all fishes that inhabit subterranean waters.†   (source)
  • The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted seven years, from 1805 to 1812.†   (source)
  • My uncle reckoned upon a fresh supply from subterranean sources, but hitherto we had met with none.†   (source)
  • A subterranean edifice erected in common by all the miserable.†   (source)
  • Franz took the lamp, and entered the subterranean grotto, followed by Gaetano.†   (source)
  • If this is the case, its origin may well be attributed to subterranean fires.†   (source)
  • We were the only living creatures in this subterranean world.†   (source)
  • But the subterranean vegetation was not confined to these fungi.†   (source)
  • A large mass had been rent asunder by a subterranean disturbance.†   (source)
  • Big Spring had its source somewhere deep under the gray, weathered bluff, from which came a hollow subterranean gurgle and roar of water.†   (source)
  • As to Claggart, the monomania in the man—if that indeed it were—as involuntarily disclosed by starts in the manifestations detailed, yet in general covered over by his self-contained and rational demeanour; this, like a subterranean fire was eating its way deeper and deeper in him.†   (source)
  • shopping, sightseeing; and their natural curiosity, for they looked round and up as the nicelooking gentleman in horn-rimmed spectacles came in, and their good nature, for they would have been glad to do any little service, such as lend a time-table or impart useful information, and their desire, pulsing in them, tugging at them subterraneously, somehow to establish connections if it were only a birthplace (Liverpool, for example) in common or friends of the same name; with their furtive glances, odd silences, and sudden withdrawals into family jocularity and isolation; there they sat eating dinner when Mr. Walsh came in and took his seat at a little table by the curtain.†   (source)
  • The woman thought a moment; her voice came up through her bandaged face afflicted with subterranean melodies: "I'm sharing the fate of the women of my time who challenged men to battle.†   (source)
  • It is sacred Latin, the dialect of monks, a chant from the Middle Ages, so to speak, a kind of muted, subterranean monotone.†   (source)
  • Then as the rumble became a strange, deep, reverberating roll, as if the monstrous river were rolling huge stones down a subterranean canyon, Shefford saw with dilating eyes that the Mormon's hair was rising stiff upon his head.†   (source)
  • The head waiter, a man with a face all grey—in what subterranean nooks or corners do people cultivate those absolutely grey complexions?†   (source)
  • The canyon widened; there was a clear demarcation where the red walls gave place to yellow; the brook showed no outlet from its subterranean channel.†   (source)
  • The rows of chops opened and shut in vast unison, and the sound of it was like to the muffled burr of subterranean machinery.†   (source)
  • Tom found a subterranean lake, shortly, which stretched its dim length away until its shape was lost in the shadows.†   (source)
  • Antonia Shimerda liked to go with me, and we used to wonder a great deal about these birds of subterranean habit.†   (source)
  • Putting things together, I reached a strong suggestion of an extensive system of subterranean ventilation, whose true import it was difficult to imagine.†   (source)
  • It was very like the old stories that used to float about London of fabulously rich Jews, who had subterranean halls there, with palms, and fountains, and soft lamps and richly appareled women who never saw the disenchanting light of London day.†   (source)
  • What incomprehensible subterranean force had swelled those immense slopes and lifted the huge bulk aloft to the clouds?†   (source)
  • His researches, dedicated to psychic dissection and the dream life of his patients, had always had a subterranean character, the whiff of the catacomb.†   (source)
  • Or, to put it another way: their life-and-death duel of wits was constantly establishing some sort of subterranean connection to this epitome of stature strolling beside them and was enervated by its magnetism.†   (source)
  • They still possessed the earth on sufferance: since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.†   (source)
  • At the periphery of its field of movement it would then chance upon letters of the alphabet, and if those toward which it moved formed words that made some sort of sense, it would be the result of a very complex phenomenon, almost impure in its intricacy, a blend of conscious, half-conscious, and subconscious elements—assisted and driven by the wishes of each person present, whether they admitted it to themselves or not—and of a secret sanction granted by unillumined layers within the souls of them all, a subterranean cooperation for strange ends, with each individual contributing more or less of his or her own darkness, the strongest contribution probably being that of sweet little Elly.†   (source)
  • There are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, as there are extractions.†   (source)
  • "Follow me, sir;" and without ascending the stairs the guide conducted him by a subterraneous passage to another entrance.†   (source)
  • For again Starbuck's downcast eyes lighted up with the stubbornness of life; the subterranean laugh died away; the winds blew on; the sails filled out; the ship heaved and rolled as before.†   (source)
  • Their passage through the natural galleries and subterraneous apartments of the cavern was preceded by the shrieks and cries of hundreds of women and children.†   (source)
  • Was I left to perish of starvation in this subterranean world of darkness; or what fate, perhaps even more fearful, awaited me?†   (source)
  • Mr. Snagsby was about to descend into the subterranean regions to take tea when he looked out of his door just now and saw the crow who was out late.†   (source)
  • Thence, introduced into a half-subterranean gallery, he became, on the part of those who had brought him, the object of the grossest insults and the harshest treatment.†   (source)
  • What then would be those convulsed regions upon which we were advancing, regions subject to the dire phenomena of eruptions, the offspring of volcanic explosions and subterranean convulsions?†   (source)
  • I know that the account of this kind of solitary imprisonment is insufferably tedious, unless there is some cheerful or humorous incident to enliven it—a tender gaoler, for instance, or a waggish commandant of the fortress, or a mouse to come out and play about Latude's beard and whiskers, or a subterranean passage under the castle, dug by Trenck with his nails and a toothpick: the historian has no such enlivening incident to relate in the narrative of Amelia's captivity.†   (source)
  • "I don't thank you for that," she said, turning away, while indignation spread through her like subterranean heat.†   (source)
  • The choice morsel had been judiciously separated from the adjoining and less worthy parts of the beast, and, enveloped in the hairy coating provided by nature, it had duly undergone the heat of the customary subterraneous oven, and was now laid before its proprietors in all the culinary glory of the prairies.†   (source)
  • At the fortress of Saint-Antoine, at the Palais de Justice of Paris, at the Louvre, these subterranean edifices were prisons.†   (source)
  • Not to lengthen these particulars, I need only add, that she made a handsome provision for all my possible wants during my month of trial; that Steerforth, to my great disappointment and hers too, did not make his appearance before she went away; that I saw her safely seated in the Dover coach, exulting in the coming discomfiture of the vagrant donkeys, with Janet at her side; and that when the coach was gone, I turned my face to the Adelphi, pondering on the old days when I used to roam about its subterranean arches, and on the happy changes which had brought me to the surface.†   (source)
  • She had a vision of this ceremony being performed in some subterranean chapel— subterranean chapels in New York were not frequent, but Mrs. Penniman's imagination was not chilled by trifles—and of the guilty couple—she liked to think of poor Catherine and her suitor as the guilty couple—being shuffled away in a fast-whirling vehicle to some obscure lodging in the suburbs, where she would pay them (in a thick veil†   (source)
  • Iridescent bubbles of dank subterranean breath rose from the sweating sod beside the waiting-maid's feet as she trod, hissing as they burst and expanded away to join the vapoury firmament above.†   (source)
  • She did not hear him cross the courtyard beyond, nor see him pause in the archway that led from the subterranean path into the garden.†   (source)
  • It got about that the old house had had famous cellarage (which indeed was true), and that Flintwinch had been in a cellar at the moment, or had had time to escape into one, and that he was safe under its strong arch, and even that he had been heard to cry, in hollow, subterranean, suffocated notes, 'Here I am!'†   (source)
  • Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart, but, rightly considered, these things proceed from the eternal generation of the soul.†   (source)
  • Human blood, in order to keep its freshness, should run in hidden streams, as the water of an aqueduct is conveyed in subterranean pipes.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as manufactures increase, the working of old mines increases also; new ones are opened, the mining population extends and grows up; day by day governments augment their subterranean dominions, and people them with their agents.†   (source)
  • Greece crowned her mountains with a temple harmonious to the eye; India disembowelled hers, to chisel therein those monstrous subterranean pagodas, borne up by gigantic rows of granite elephants.†   (source)
  • In the way of movement and human life, there was the hasty rattle of a cab or coach, its driver protected by a waterproof cap over his head and shoulders; the forlorn figure of an old man, who seemed to have crept out of some subterranean sewer, and was stooping along the kennel, and poking the wet rubbish with a stick, in quest of rusty nails; a merchant or two, at the door of the post-office, together with an editor and a miscellaneous politician, awaiting a dilatory mail; a few visages of retired sea-captains at the window of an insurance office, looking out vacantly at the vacant street, blaspheming at the weather, and fretting at the dearth as well of public news as local gossip.†   (source)
  • In fact, four men such as they were—four men devoted to one another, from their purses to their lives; four men always supporting one another, never yielding, executing singly or together the resolutions formed in common; four arms threatening the four cardinal points, or turning toward a single point—must inevitably, either subterraneously, in open day, by mining, in the trench, by cunning, or by force, open themselves a way toward the object they wished to attain, however well it might be defended, or however distant it may seem.†   (source)
  • The archdeacon went on, appearing to reply now only to his thoughts,— "But no, I am still crawling; I am scratching my face and knees against the pebbles of the subterranean pathway.†   (source)
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