undercraft

Example Sentences

• "Not that by any analysis , -or that from any table of interest or genealogy , there appears much more ground of alliance betwixt them than betwixt light and darkness , or any two of the most unfriendly opposites in nature ; - only 'tis an undercraft of authors to keep up a good understanding amongst words , as politicians do amongst men."
• "Mrs. Lambert believed this, and Ivon would not permit himself to doubt it; for to a generous and noble character like his, the undercraft and meanness of a small nature is simply incomprehensible."
• "But in the usual routine of its life, When it addresses friend, lover or wife; The soft sweet smooth and modulating strain, Doth ever in expression sweeter gain, Without the undercraft or oily tone, It e'en delights their foes and stands alone."
• "Meredith's high-toned verbosities often draw strength from a secret affiliation with the "undercraft" of the underclasses, his humor sociolectic as well as lexical."
• "Such hordyng up of worldly wealth, such keeping much in store. . .Such falshed undercraft, and such unstedfast wayes, Was never sene within men's hartes, as is found nowadayes."
• "Under-craft, witchcraft, call it what you will, but it is indeed poisonous."