There are many springs at the base of the lava-flows, on the sides of the valleys, and it has as yet not been necessary to look for the subterranean sheets which accompany some of the valleys.
All that can be done is to follow for a few miles with a line of wells a subterranean stream of fresh and not very deep water.
The water infiltrating into the soil forms a subterranean sheet which approaches more or less to the surface according to the topography.
A subterranean rocky ridge continues the Sierra de Cordoba southward and joins it with the sierras of the Colorado.
Beyond the lucerne belt, at the point where the plain rises toward the Sierra de San Luis and the Sierra de Cordoba, the subterranean water sinks deeper.
There was not a spot about her that shed or reflected a single ray of light; she was like some subterranean creature that has strayed to the surface.
If one only put a sketch before him, he would make devils' heads and subterranean monsters and sea-serpents --the sort of thing that before his time had to be ordered from the sculptors in Copenhagen.
Up here subterranean creatures had their home; when one trod upon the rock it sounded hollow.
For a description of this large semi-subterranean structure see "Pomo Buildings," by the present author in the Holmes Anniversary Volume.
From these subterranean waters our springs issue forth, and it is these waters we tap in our wells.
De Craye detained him in the laboratory, first over the China cups and saucers, and then with the latest of London--tales of youngest Cupid upon subterranean adventures, having high titles to light him.
Her hair would kindle the frosty shades to a throb of vitality: it would be sunshine in the subterranean sphere.
But Schiller told me that the Count was well; though I had my doubts, and dreaded lest his health should receive a last blow from the effects of his subterranean abode.
The consignment being made out, my friend and myself were conducted into a subterranean gallery, where two dismal-looking dungeons were unlocked, at a distance from each other.
While in his subterranean abode, Maroncelli had composed a variety of poems of high merit.
I had been just informed that in one of those subterranean dens an aged Bohemian gentleman had recently destroyed himself by beating his head against the walls.
Beneath the earth, reached by subterranean passages, was Hades, a vast region, the realm of departed souls.
In many cases, as a measure of precaution, the slaves were forced to work in chains, and to sleep in subterranean prisons.
The heaps of gold and silver relics discovered by Di Cesnola at Sunium, in the island of Cyprus, were found in the secret subterranean vaults of a great temple.
It was during this and the various other persecutions that vexed the Church in the second and third centuries that the Christians sought refuge in the Catacombs, those vast subterranean galleries and chambers under the city of Rome.
It was in the darkness of these subterranean abodes that Christian art had its beginnings.
They are not less numerous in the Presidency of Madras, where they chiefly consist of subterranean chambers made of huge unhewn stones or of dolmens above ground surrounded by one or more circles of upright stones, such as are shorn in Fig.
In the department of the Gironde, regular silos or subterranean storing-places for grain have been found in which the calcined corn was stowed away.
Among the subterranean chambers is one dedicated to the Lord Issa, or Jesus.
Passing along the subterranean gallery, through the long series of gaudy chapels, acts of idolatry are witnessed the grossness of which recalls the fetish worship of Africa.
All these animals lived upon seeds and fruits, on the green twigs, or subterranean stems, and the succulent roots of the plants of the period.
Sometimes it is like the heavy rolling of subterranean thunder.
Nearly all these caves occur in limestone rocks, particularly in the Jurassic and Carboniferous formations, which present many vast subterranean caverns.
The eruption of a volcano is usually announced by a subterranean noise, accompanied by shocks, quivering of the ground, and sometimes by actual earthquakes.
Sigillariæ, with a subterranean fructification; all that is known of them is the long roots which carry the reproductive organs, and in some cases are as much as sixteen feet long.
Each of these subterranean commotions would be provocative of momentary irruptions of the waves.
It always lives in subterranean caverns; it resembles a mouse, but is of the size of a buffalo or ox.
They received Komm and his companions into their subterranean abodes, which were covered with reeds and stones rounded by the Ocean.
Foucquet had his lodging at the other end of the town, in a house which communicated with the Loire by means of a subterranean passage.
The subterranean passage through which the victims of the Inquisition found their exit to another world in the dark waters below is exposed to view, the walls having fallen away.
In many places, the year's vintage is stored in these subterranean holes.
I will now give a few instances of variation in subterranean buds, that is, by suckers, tubers, and bulbs; not that there is any essential difference between buds above and beneath the ground.
Buds of all kinds, whether produced on ordinary branches or on subterranean stems, whether simple or, as in tubers and bulbs, much modified and supplied with a stock of nutriment, are all liable to sudden variations of the same general nature.
The souls of the departed, after a progress lasting a thousand years, returned by the second openings from the celestial and subterranean regions respectively.
True; but the Moors were enchanters, and it was known that they could make subterranean passages which closed behind them so as to prevent their being pursued.
We soon ascertained that these were the work of the Saubas, being the outworks, or domes, which overlie and protect the entrances to their vast subterranean galleries.
They live habitually in the subterranean chambers of the Sauba ant; only coming out of their abodes occasionally in the night time.
They believe that he hassubterranean campos and hunting grounds in the forest, well stocked with pacas and deer.
These properties have evidently some relation to their residence in the subterranean abodes of ants.
The leaves are used to thatch the domes which cover the entrances to their subterranean dwellings, thereby protecting from the deluging rains the young broods in the nests beneath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subterranean" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
