And now I saw that there did seem to be a mighty long rock laid across the topmost part of the upstanding rock, and yet had a very strange and shapely appearance; and did seem upon the underpart to be as that I had lookt before upon it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There hung the white phone, held in place and the receiver prevented from falling by a wide U-shaped copper band fastened between two sides of the underpart of the table; near it was fastened a small metal box from which a pair of thin wires ran down the inside of the table leg. ❋ Finney, Jack (1995)
The underpart of the pulpit was faced by latticed panels inset between the legs, the whole thing stained and polished to the shade generally known as “a burnished hue.” ❋ Westlake, Donald E. (1990)
The sergeant pulled out a chair and instructed me to bend over it from behind and hold myself down by clasping the underpart of the chair with my hands. ❋ Unknown (1988)
De Gier was going to tell her the price when the wind caught the underpart of their canvas roof and pushed it straight up. ❋ Van De Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- (1977)
He used a small screwdriver to work on the underpart of the front hood — the luggage compartment lid. ❋ Ellin, Stanley (1977)
He then trained some large and ferocious hounds, at a certain signal, to dash in under the model and fix their teeth in its leathern underpart. ❋ E. Hamilton Currey (N/A)
These white, fluffy, downlike feathers grow on the lower underpart of the body of the Maribou Stork. ❋ Thomas Gilbert Pearson (N/A)
Mrs.B. will be glad to act an underpart in such an excellent design .... ❋ Unknown (1904)
The kitchen seemed full of the presence of the long-dead woman whom Tony was still grieving for in some underpart of his mind. ❋ Stephen Sydney Reynolds (1900)
Williamson's sap-sucker, the white-headed woodpecker, Cabanis's woodpecker with spotted wings and gray breast, the most common of woodpeckers, and Lewis's woodpecker, a large heavy bird, glossy black above, with a white collar and a rich red underpart, have all been seen for many years in succession. ❋ George Wharton James (1890)
Kookooburra, not to eat those hard green beetles that had disagreed with it, for a little shivering movement had gone through the Snake, and presently all the scales of its shining black back and rosy underpart began to move. ❋ Ethel C. Pedley (1889)
The underpart is whitish with dark spots on the abdomen. ❋ Lina Beard (1888)
We examined his apparatus, and found that it merely consisted of very thick wide straps of leather about half a yard wide By means of these he was secured firmly to the underpart of the train, with his hands perfectly free. ❋ Sarah Bernhardt (1884)
Their general colour was greenish-brown, mottled and spotted with reddish-brown, and yellow; the sides green and black; the underpart yellow, mottled with orange. ❋ Unknown (1882)
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. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
We had the underpart of the slab on our side, and I did not think of looking when we took it down. ❋ William Heysham Overend (1867)
Albatrosses passed in the air, the expanse of their wings being at least four yards and a half, and justly called the vultures of the ocean; some gigantic petrels, and some damiers, a kind of small duck, the underpart of whose body is black and white; then there were a whole series of petrels, some whitish, with brown-bordered wings, others blue, peculiar to the ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
In the presence of a landscape they admired neither the series of perspectives nor the depth of the backgrounds, nor the undulations of the green surfaces; but that which was not visible to them, the underpart, the earth: and for them every hill was only a fresh proof of the Deluge. ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)
