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located below or beneath something else- Intently he listened for any sound from the nether world...James Matthew Barrie -- The Adventures of Peter Pan
- ...she could not bear a coarse word, so far as her limited vocabulary reached she had a passion for euphemisms, and she scented indecency everywhere; she never spoke of trousers but referred to them as nether garments...W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- Her bottom plate was not in, and her upper lip protruded; from time to time she would draw her nether lip to her upper plate and carry her chin with it.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- I ordered a pitcher of beer, and then another, and drank myself into a nether world of hallucinations.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- 41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.The Bible -- Job
- I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
- A void boundless as a nether sky.John Gardner -- Grendel
- That's Cromwell... You're between the upper and the nether millstones then.Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
- And so Sir Tristram be-bled both the over sheet and the nether, and pillows, and head sheet.Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I
- The dwarf buttoned his bum-flap, which had been blasted open by the gale emanating from his nether regions.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- "In another popular Sumerian myth," the Librarian says, "Inanna descends into the nether world."Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
- He still wore knee-breeches, and dark cotton stockings on his nether limbs; but they were not the breeches.Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
- Anything more suggestive of gloom and of regions of nether darkness I never beheld.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- The old gentleman lifted his shaggy eyebrows, protruded his thick nether lip, and tapped the arms of his chair with his cushioned fingertips.Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
- Just loneliness, barrenness, men hunted and ray-gunned, all happening in some nether-land crevice.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- They wandered onward till they reached the nether margin of the heath, where it became marshy and merged in moorland.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- This is a military slang term that refers to a certain tightening sensation in the nether regions of the body, in response to fear.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- But those who reside in the nether world know that he who eats of the fruits of their realm is forever theirs.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- She turned her Palms out and down as ff he were a small stove burning softly somewhere in a nether world and she came to warm her hands at him.Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Good nuncle, in; and ask thy daughters blessing: here's a night pities nether wise men nor fools.William Shakespeare -- King Lear
nether = lower
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