These white, fluffy, downlike feathers grow on the lower underpart of the body of the Maribou Stork. From Wordnik.com. [The Bird Study Book] Reference
He used a small screwdriver to work on the underpart of the front hood — the luggage compartment lid. From Wordnik.com. [The Luxembourg Run]
De Gier was going to tell her the price when the wind caught the underpart of their canvas roof and pushed it straight up. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Hawker]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Resistence] Reference
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.”. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned Hopes]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
The underpart is whitish with dark spots on the abdomen. From Wordnik.com. [On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls] Reference
The hair on the underpart of the body is softer than on the top. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Hair on the underpart of the body is lighter in color than on the top. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Mrs.B. will be glad to act an underpart in such an excellent design. From Wordnik.com. [Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney] Reference
We had the underpart of the slab on our side, and I did not think of looking when we took it down. From Wordnik.com. [On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War] Reference
It has a dark-streaked, orange-brown head, a reddish-orange underpart and bold, checkered upper part. From Wordnik.com. [MailTribune.com Latest Headlines] Reference
The kitchen seemed full of the presence of the long-dead woman whom Tony was still grieving for in some underpart of his mind. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
But making OEdipus 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 Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Dot and the Kangaroo] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land: Chapter 9] Reference
Such a vent, going the full length of the soffit (underpart of the overhang), will, or at least should, make a big difference in keeping the roof cold, by providing a continuous flow of air into the attic through the soffit vents and up and out through the ridge vent. From Wordnik.com. [RutlandHerald.com] Reference
I found very few people stirring, except those dressed to attend the ceremony; some of whom had in their hands small poles about four feet long, and to the underpart of these were fastened two or three other sticks; not bigger than one's finger, and about six inches in length. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference
Mrs. Whitestone had passion fruit vines growing down the side of the house, so the underpart wasn’t even visible from the rare passing boat. From Wordnik.com. [RL’s Dream] Reference
D. is a comb cut of the sollid stick with the canoe and projects from the center of the end of the canoe being about 1 inch thirck it's sides parallel and edge at C D.sharp. it is from 9 to 11 Inches in length and extends from the underpart of the bowsprit at A to the bottom of the canoe at D. - the stern B. is mearly rounding and graduly ascending. 1 2 3 represents the rim of the gunwalls about 4 Inches wide, reather ascending as they recede from the canoe. 4 5 6 7 8 are the round holes through which the cross bars are inserted. From Wordnik.com. [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference
He takes in much of the underpart of the areola. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 24] Reference
9 to 11 Inches in length and extends from the underpart of the bowsprit at A to the bottom of the canoe at D. the stern. From Wordnik.com. [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference
"They are very quiet, like most birds in the heat of the day, and are sitting up among the leaves, huddled up and with their feathers all loose, so that you don't see the bright underpart, and their backs and sides are all green like the leaves. From Wordnik.com. [First in the Field A Story of New South Wales] Reference
John acts a strange underpart at the theatre. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
The underpart and the environment of the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Length, six and a half inches; extent of wings, about twelve inches; color, back, azure blue; throat, breast, and sides, dull crimson; underpart, white; bill and legs, blackish; eye, brown; arrives early in March; leaves in late November. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference
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 Antarctic seas, and so oily, as I told Conseil, that the inhabitants of the Ferroe. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
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