The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a schoolroom, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
He took the pad, added a figure, passed it to Lydia, and she coolly wrote a total, underscoring it heavily.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers
That is our day of remembrance, our feast of hope, the first page of our fresh calendar of good resolutions, the day of underscoring and emphasis of the swift lapse of life.
"From the Easy Chair, series 2"
George William Curtis