"Undermost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it with red litmus paper. If it turns the paper slightly blue, it is ready for use. Put this bath in a flat tray (porcelain preferably), and then lay the prints in it face down. Move them all the time, to insure evenness of tone and to prevent spots. It is a good plan to keep drawing out the undermost one, and putting it on ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various
... (rude) vulgara. Undergo suferi. Underground subtera. Underhand sekreta, kasxema. Underlie subtavoli, subteni. Underline substreki. Undermaster submajstro. Undermine (to dig) subfosi. Undermost (adv.) la plej sube. Underneath (prep.) sub. Underneath (adv.) sube. Underrate malestimi. Underscore substreki. Understand kompreni. Understanding intelekto. Understanding, to have an interkonsenti pri. Undertake entrepreni. Undertaking entrepreno. Underwrite ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... a clear shout of laughter, Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, uttering thiswise: "Hit thou art! not in vain flew the shaft; how by rights it had pierced thee Into the undermost gut, therewith to have rived thee of life- breath! Following that had the Trojans plucked a new breath from their direst, They all frighted of thee, as the goats bleat in flight from a lion." Then unto him untroubled made answer stout ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... he was in the grasp of a giant. Privation had doubtless weakened Solomon, but he had still the strength of a powerful man, and his rage supplied him for the time with all that he had lost. They clung to one another like snakes, and whirled about with frantic violence. Whichever fell undermost was a dead man for certain. For a few moments the expiring torch still showed them each other's hot, vindictive faces; then they battled in the dark, with laboring breath and eager strain, swaying they knew not whither. At last the huge ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn
... names were written. In all probability the Janissary, when he picked himself up again, had dipped his finger in his own blood, and then scrawled the names upon the wall in order to perpetuate the memory of the incident. He had also taken good care to put Halil Pelivan uppermost and Halil Patrona undermost. ...
— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai
... This should be left as nearly as possible equal on both sides. Carefully cut the fleshy parts off the lips and balls of the toes and feet. Clean away every particle of fatty or fleshy matter that may still adhere to the skin. Peg it out on the ground with the hair side undermost. When thoroughly scraped clean of all extraneous matter on the inner surface, get a bucket or tub of buttermilk, which is called by the natives dahye or mutha. It is a favourite article of diet with them, cheap and plentiful. ...
— Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter • James Inglis
... was beaten, but he clung to his adversary tenaciously, bore him backward with his hands fast at his throat, and, bending down his head to avoid the savage blows, he leaped forward so that he and the convict fell, the latter undermost. ...
— First in the Field - A Story of New South Wales • George Manville Fenn
... as they were cut by Ossaroo, were passed into the hands of the others, who having already spread out the hide with the hairy side undermost, ...
— The Plant Hunters - Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains • Mayne Reid |
