"Undermost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by adding, most, as nether, nethermost; outer, outermost; under, undermost; up, upper, uppermost; ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
... when the two sides of humanity proceed in this fashion of alternate preponderance, and not of mutual understanding and balance, the side which is uppermost does not really provide in a satisfactory manner for the needs of the side which is undermost, and a state of confusion is, sooner or later, the result. The Hellenic half of our nature, bearing rule, makes a sort of provision for the Hebrew half, but it turns out to be an inadequate provision; and again the Hebrew half of our nature bearing rule makes a sort of provision for ...
— Culture and Anarchy • Matthew Arnold
... the additional claim of scientific distinction. Now this officer, while abroad, had bethought himself one day, that there really could be no difficulty in finding the circumference of a circle: if a circle were rolled upon a straight line until the undermost point came undermost again, there would be the straight line equal to the circle. He came to me, saying that he did not feel equal to the statement of his claim in this respect, but that if some clever fellow ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan |
