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noun

Underworld n.

The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. "That overspreads (with such a reverence) This underworld."

The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.

The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes. (R.) "Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld."

The inferior part of mankind. (R.)

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"Underworld" Quotes from Famous Books

... when one sees the great flags weighing nine kilogrammes made here and used to let light into the cellarage below the carriage-ways, for example, of the huge Hotel Continental, at Paris, it comes easily within the probabilities that the whole underworld of our great cities in time may thus come to be made available for divers uses, as so much of the underworld of Broadway ...

— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert

... moods. They are a great Testament, though they seem unbearably harsh at a superficial glance. But put aside your own ideas and humbly study the ideas of Holbein,—sure that they must be well worth the reverence of yours or mine,—and little by little you will be made free of that Underworld where Holbein's true self has its home; you will pierce its gloom and find its clue and understand its tongue. It is a small matter whether you and I find ourselves in sympathy with that world, or can never be acclimatised. The great matter, ...

— Holbein • Beatrice Fortescue

... had to solve, and the temporary solution was to fall ill. As a matter of fact, I am ill; and now what do you think? I owe it to you to tell you, Bunny, though it goes against the grain. She would take me 'to the dear, warm underworld, where the sun really shines,' and she would 'nurse me back to life and love!' The artistic temperament is a fearsome thing, Bunny, in a woman with the ...

— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung

... vast network of winding passages and countless chambers men, women, and beasts who, born within its dim and gruesome underworld, have never seen the light of ...

— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... The squandering may go on, the vulgar bacchanalia may be prolonged, the poor may have to writhe under the iron heel of the iron lord—the dance of death may go on until society's E string snaps, and then the Vesuvius of the underworld will belch forth its lava of death and destruction."—Hearst's Magazine, ...

— Our Day - In the Light of Prophecy • W. A. Spicer

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