Underself

It was his opinion that there was as great a river as the Mississippi flowing directly under it -- an underself of a river, as much a counterpart of the other as the second story of a house is of the first; in fact, he said they were navigating through the upper story. ❋ Grace E. King (N/A)

He finds himself reading not only to fill his lungs with ozone and his heart with the strength of the gods, but to work off the humour in his blood, to express his underself, and get it out of the way. ❋ Gerald Stanley Lee (1903)

But when the softness and the grace were all lost in smart and humiliation, when the Madame de Netteville of ordinary life disappeared, and something took her place which was like a coarse and malignant underself suddenly brought into the light of day -- from that point onwards, in after days, he remembered it all. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

But when the softness and the grace were all lost in smart and humiliation, when the Madame de Netteville of ordinary life disappeared, and something took her place which was like a coarse and malignant underself suddenly brought into the light of day, -- from that point onward, in after days, he remembered it all. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)