They insured their own risks at one moment and Underwrote those of their friends the next.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
He Underwrote some shares in a South African mine, as a nominal affair, he told me, and now they want him to pay for them because the company is not supported by the public.
"A Mysterious Disappearance"
Gordon Holmes
Hannah Underwrote him for a handsome sum, received his heavy compliments with a deft detachment, heard his complaints about his extravagant wife with a sympathetic expression, but no comment-and that night spent the ten minutes before she dropped off to sleep in pondering the impenetrable mysteries of the institution called marriage.
"Gigolo"
Edna Ferber