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Example sentences for "subterraneous"

Lexicographically close words:
subter; subterfuge; subterfuges; subterminal; subterranean; subtil; subtile; subtilely; subtiler; subtilest
  1. The subterraneous Passage is still in being, and when you please I'll shew it to you.

  2. The Mouth of these subterraneous Nests was of an oval Form, the smallest of which was a Foot in Diameter.

  3. The constant odor rising from the subterraneous fires not only excites disgust, but is disagreeably suggestive of the nearness to active volcanic agencies.

  4. A subterraneous way is also said to have existed from the site of the present church to Cromwell House, and thence to Islington.

  5. Tradition states there was a subterraneous passage from this house to the Mansion House, which stood where the new church now stands, but of its reality no proof has hitherto been adduced.

  6. Or if put into the subterraneous paths of the moles, it will drive them from the garden.

  7. All I know is, sir, that my father has often told me; there are subterraneous communications between this house and distant parts of the quarter.

  8. After passing under the great gate and subterraneous exit called Porta Reale, the procession wound its way across the drawbridges, and along the deep ditches, &c.

  9. These subterraneous rooms and passages, while they aroused my curiosity, seemed at the same time so gloomy and repellent that I never explored them.

  10. The stairs were very dry, and on the walls there was none of the damp or mould which fancy usually associates with a subterraneous vault.

  11. An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now and then some blasts of wind that shook the doors she had passed, and which, grating on the rusty hinges, were re-echoed through that long labyrinth of darkness.

  12. As I shrunk from the cutting wind which howled through my subterraneous dwelling, the change seemed so striking, so abrupt, that I doubted its reality.

  13. I always thought that these subterraneous reservoirs of water were bedded by some hard stone, or rock, which the water could not penetrate.

  14. I have been in some of the subterraneous caverns where it is found, which are similar to those you have described.

  15. On one side are small chambers communicating with subterraneous avenues, used, no doubt, as places of refuge during the revolution, or as the haunts of robbers.

  16. The nun who was with me led me through the cellar, passing to the right of the secret burying place, and showed me the door of the subterraneous passage, which was at the extremity towards the Congregational Nunnery.

  17. FN#79] The common phenomenon of rivers flowing underground in Arabia has, doubtless, suggested to the people these subterraneous passages, with which they connect the most distant places.

  18. It now flows down a subterraneous canal, about thirty feet below the surface; in places the water is exposed to the air, and [p.

  19. If indeed we are to confine this subterraneous operation to a little spot, the effect may be very distinctly perceived in one view; such are those strata elevated like the roof of a house, which M.

  20. Now, we have shown, that subterraneous fire and heat had been employed in the consolidation of our earth, and in the erection of that consolidated body into the place of land.

  21. They first explored the subterraneous passage, leading to the nunnery, and found fewer impediments in their way than they expected.

  22. There were often subterraneous passages leading from the lowest part of the main tower to a great distance; and by these the besieged could make their escape in time of imminent danger, when the outworks were carried by storm.

  23. Not many paces distant was the inlet to a subterraneous passage, supposed to lead under the deepest foundations of the castle; but its termination was now a mystery, at any rate, to the present occupiers and inhabitants of the place.

  24. Darkness was still about their steps; but she was borne along, at a swift pace, by persons evidently accustomed to this subterraneous line of communication.

  25. He watched patiently for some time, when all on a sudden he heard a rumbling subterraneous noise, and he plainly felt the ground tremble under his feet.

  26. After several unmeaning mummeries and incantations, the chamber appeared to grow darker, and a low rumbling noise was heard, as from some subterraneous explosion.

  27. Where Humber pours his rich commercial stream There dwelt a wretch, who breathed but to blaspheme; In subterraneous caves his life he led, Black as the mine in which he wrought for bread.

  28. You will there find also my reason for not being of your party, through the subterraneous passage and into the castle.

  29. Towards the eastern extremity of the lake are the remaining outlets of the subterraneous fires: they consist of several apertures, from which an uninterrupted discharge of sulphureous vapours takes place.

  30. The vapours rush out with incredible force, with violent subterraneous noises, resembling the boiling of an immense cauldron in the bowels of the mountain: their colour is white, like the concentrated vapours of boiling water.

  31. It contains in its foundation a subterraneous cell, to which the descent is by very narrow steps, leading from the south: this consists of three compartments, gradually decreasing in dimensions as they extend into the body of the building.

  32. By a judicious system of canals and subterraneous aqueducts, the waste places on the coast were refreshed by copious streams, that clothed them in fertility and beauty.

  33. A broad river rolled through the meadows, supplying facilities for copious irrigation by means of the usual canals and subterraneous aqueducts.

  34. In some spots, the waters are still left to flow in their silent, subterraneous channels, whose windings and whose sources have been alike unexplored.

  35. To these spots water was conveyed by means of canals and subterraneous aqueducts, executed on a noble scale.

  36. Here, too, they loved to indulge in the luxury of their baths, replenished by streams of crystal water which were conducted through subterraneous silver channels into basins of gold.

  37. The hill was excavated below the towers, and several subterraneous galleries communicated with the city and the palaces of the Inca.

  38. In the seventh and last section he treats of the accidents and physical affections of subterraneous bodies.

  39. A flambeau is carefully prepared at the same time, with a gum which exudes from a tree growing in the vicinity, and is not easily extinguished by fixed air, or subterraneous vapours.

  40. Theodore, "was it another, and not thy lovely self, that I assisted to find the subterraneous passage?

  41. As these thoughts passed rapidly through her mind, she recollected a subterraneous passage which led from the vaults of the castle to the church of St. Nicholas.

  42. They then all descended, and roved with wonder through the labyrinth of subterraneous passages, where the bodies were laid in rows on either side.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subterraneous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.