Intrigues and undercurrents were going on hard in Rome, and the issue of the conclave was impatiently awaited.

Every ear full of the rubbing, grinding noise that came up out of the Yukonnoise not loud, but deepan undercurrent of heavy sound.

For there was a deadly undercurrent of silence which would not tolerate more than murmurs on the part of others.

And yet, in spite of the wind and the sea and the clean light of the forenoon, there was a sadness about the place, and an undercurrent of uneasy silence that the rustling of the leaves and the noise of the surf only seemed to accentuate.

In most of the poetry of the time, religion, if at all noticeable, is a mere undercurrent; but whenever it rises to the surface, it reflects the ancient creed.

From the undercurrent of suppressed excitement animating most of the guests I should think it was something more important.

Those who know intimately the undercurrents of feeling in Alsace-Lorraine are unanimous in asserting that if before last July an impartial plebiscite, without fear of the consequences, could have been taken among the inhabitants, an overwhelming majority would have voted for reunion with France.

ground; reason, reason why; why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation; final cause &c (intention) 620; les dessous des cartes [Fr.]; undercurrents. rudiment.

But there is still an undercurrent at work by which, if not seasonably checked, the worst apprehensions of our anti-federal patriots will be realized, and not only will the State authorities be overshadowed by the great increase of power in the executive department of the General Government, but the character of that Government, if not its designation, be essentially and radically changed.

He had always had an undercurrent of fear of me.

It could not be told in a thousand volumes, if I attempted to reproduce the subtle undercurrents of John Gray's life and mine.

All these undercurrents of heterodox thought, with but few and soon repressed public manifestations of its presence, were obscured by the massive movement in Church and State.

So he sat very still, wondering how soon she would divine these undercurrents of his thought, listening while she talked to him.

I didn't need to happen in this afternoon to know that there were undercurrents of feeling swirling about.

As family physician, and father confessor by brevet, Dr. Price had looked upon more than one hidden skeleton; and no one in town had had better opportunities than old Jane for learning the undercurrents in the lives of the old families.

Joe began again to feel the tragic undercurrents of life, the first time since the dark days following the fire.

As it was, his attention positively would not concentrate upon the rapid undercurrents, where the real energy of the habitues seemed to operate.

There were some undercurrents of emotion in the British army not to be seen on the surface.

These rhetorical flourishes, which are significant of the undercurrent of sentiment, hardly do justice to the general quality of the debate which was marked by legal acuteness on both sides.

But little subtle undercurrents pressed in on her.

The job might be hard enough, but it wasn't baffling and queer, with hidden undercurrents that you couldn't chart.

In spite of all the bravado that was being thrown into these preparations, there was noticeable a deep undercurrent of regret.

"But a man is better equipped to fight the undercurrents!"

For nearly a year after the colossal blunder of the Lusitania, there existed in the deep undercurrents of German politics a most remarkable whirlpool of discord, in which the policy of von Tirpitz was a severe tax on the patience of von Bethmann-Hollweg and the Foreign Office, for it was they who had to invent all sorts of plausible excuses to placate various neutral Powers.

During this voyage, the Admiral encountered marine currents as impetuous as torrents, with great waves and undercurrents, to say nothing of the dangers presented by the immense number of neighbouring islands; but he was heedless of these perils, and was determined to advance until he had ascertained whether Cuba was an island or a continent.