The labourers dug through three subterranean streams, which they sealed off with bronze to construct the burial chamber.
Italy also has considerable areas in which, as a result of porous rock, the water systems run underground, forming subterranean streams, sinkholes, and lakes.
The historian Sima Qian (c. 145 c. 87 bce) wrote: The labourers dug through three subterranean streams, which they sealed off with bronze to construct the burial chamber.
In the limestone areas the characteristic landscape consists of karst formations (i.e., precipitous slopes, abrupt, protuberant mountains, caverns, and subterranean streams).
We don't hear much from the mistress – unless of course we look into the subterranean streams of ballads and folk songs, which are perennially filled with the anonymous laments of those women who let themselves be seized (by jolly sailors and soldiers more often than poets, it must be said) and were left holding the baby.
On a whim Ned decides to swim home via the pools of his neighbours: "that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the county".
In his mind he saw a string of swimming pools, a quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the county, & he knew that he would find friends along the way.
In John Cheever's classic story "The Swimmer," it occurs to the suburbanite Neddy Merrill that he can swim home from a party by using a network of backyard pools: "He seemed to see, with a cartographer's eye, that string of swimming pools, that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the country".
He seemed to see, with a cartographer's eye, that string of swimming pools, that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the country.
