under-earth

But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

She appears in her under-earth to the reptilian chromaticism of Mozart's D minor String Quartet finale (K421/417b) and the strange end-phrase repeated notes sound incantatory as she calls up the maroons to do the devil's work.

Savage Boundaries 2002

I am dark as the sunless under-earth, And yellow as the fire that consumes, And white as bone, And red as blood.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Specs, ladies and gentlemen -- fit you with specs that will enable you to penetrate even the darkness of the under-earth.

Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

That the under-earth, like to the earth around us,

On the Nature of Things Titus Lucretius Carus 1910

We can not believe that this withdrawal of material from the under-earth has resulted in the formation of open underground spaces.

Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

When the soil water is as far as possible exhausted, the alkali coating may represent a considerable part of the soluble matter of the soil, and in the next rainy season it may return in whole or in part to the under-earth, again to be drawn in the manner before described to the upper level.

Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

This substance probably arises from the effect of heat contained in old lavas which are in contact with limestone in the deep under-earth.

Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

When at last the time came for his final departure, he did not pass through the valley of death, as must all mortals, but he penetrated through a cave into the under-earth, and found his way to "the root of heaven."

American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

This is universally ascribed by the proprietors and neighbors to the soil or its under-earth being too stiff and close to permit the descent of water; and

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861