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Undertow

noun

An inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling.

The seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore. Synonyms: sea-poose, sea-purse, sea-puss, sea purse, sea puss.

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... sister. "I happened to be the only one looking out to sea. I think, Mr. Jones, you owe us apologies more than gratitude, for your folly was responsible for the incident. You were altogether too venturesome. Such action on this coast, where the surf rolls high and creates an undertow, is ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne

... have remained faithful. There are scattered through the other five those who are faithful. And there are no doubt many who feel the pull to be true but are yielding to the strong undertow of the rising tide by ...

— Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation • S. D. Gordon

... He wished the undertow would catch that Spenceley girl. If he should reach her when she was going down for the third time she would have to thank him for saving her and that would about kill her. He decided that he would make a point of bathing when she did, ...

— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart

... the junks; they shout in the plunging of breakers. 'Tis their white hands that toss in the leap of the surf; their clutch that clatters the shingle, or seizes the swimmer's feet in the pull of the undertow. And the seamen speak euphemistically of the O-'bake, the honourable ghosts, and fear ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... exposition that only Raphael has. Even a peasant enjoys Velasquez. The Greeks fathomed this mystery: all Athens worshipped its marbles, and Phidias was crowned King of Emotions. Music alone lagged in the race, music, part speech, part painting, with a surging undertow of passion, music had been too long in the laboratories of the wise men. To free it from its Egyptian bondage, to make it the tongue of all life, the interpreter of the world's desire—Illowski dreamed the ...

— Melomaniacs • James Huneker

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