There was, then, no lovely mystery to be unravelled, no Subterrene story excavated, no romance at all, nothing but a spiritual looking Englishman with an odd first name and a gift of piano playing.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Eveena had taken it for granted that we should disembark here, and it was not till we had come within a hundred yards of the landing-place-where the bank was perpendicular and levelled to a height above the water, which enabled passengers to step directly from the deck of the boat-without slackening our speed, that the possibility of our intending to accompany the boat on its Subterrene course occurred to her.
"Across the Zodiac"
Percy Greg
The abominable scene Spat at the skies; and through her veins, To cloud celestially sown, Ran venom of what nourishment Her dark sustainer Subterrene Supplied her, stretched supine on the rack, Alive in the shrewd nerves, the seething brains, Under derisive revels, prone As one clamped fast, with the interminable senseless blent.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith