Example Sentences

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Though each of his five succeeding novels has received fine notices, Moore's highest praises have still been sung subterraneously by a few fond readers and fellow writers who refer his work to each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

She stood unobserved and absorbed, glorying openly in the rapture that had run subterraneously all day.

From Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia

He winded the duke circuitously,—he worked at him subterraneously.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

But potentially, and in shadowy outline, such a trial is moving subterraneously in perhaps all men's natures.

From The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by De Quincey, Thomas

Secretly and subterraneously, I have had the bottom knocked out from under my feet.

From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold