Etymology
Origin of underpart
Example Sentences
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John acts a strange underpart at the theatre.
From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by E. S. Roscoe
But making Œdipus the best and bravest person, and even Jocasta but an underpart to him, his virtues, and the punishment of his fatal crime, drew both the pity, and the terror to himself.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
We had the underpart of the slab on our side, and I did not think of looking when we took it down.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend
A deep shining plumbeous black on the upper part, becoming paler near the belly, which from the underpart of the jaw to the perineum is ashy-grey, with irregular spots and blotches.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
Seizing opportunity and larva at the same time, the wasp stood high on its legs and pulled the worm's front end from the ground, exposing the yellowed band of the underpart.
From They Twinkled Like Jewels by Philip José Farmer
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