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The lady's request would unquestionably have been more sure of a favourable response had she preferred it in person, instead of doing so through me. But I suspect from the phrase "one more," and the underlining of the word one, that she had already received from him more than one photograph, and was ashamed to make yet another application.
I think that children need both father and mother, don't you?" "Yes," said Marcella dazedly, unable to follow Mrs. Hetherington's reasoning. "And you know," she went on, "I've a terrible feeling that poor Mistah Petah's loneliness might lead him to er Oh dreadful things." She dropped her voice to a whisper. "My dear I believe he drinks," she said, underlining the words.
Remember it is to serve one purpose. It should be guarded strictly against every appeal for aid, etc., with much underlining. My grandfather returned the papers. His letter said 'I shall not break my word. Please to come and see me before you take steps right or left. So here was the dawn again. I could in a day or two start for Sarkeld.
Nothing can be more absurd than to see a person whose name can have no significance to the world in general, sign himself as elaborately as if he were the Pope or President at least, Underlining should only be resorted to when the underlined word is of really great importance.
In turn the representatives of each people stood and resumed their seat, the music underlining their individuality and parking them in sections, even as rivalry had parked them in the Stadium.
But in all there was the same attempt: to treat verse in the spirit of rhetoric, that is to say, to over-emphasise it consistently and for effect. In a tirade from Corneille's "Cinna," he followed the angry reasoning of the lines by counting on his fingers: one, two, three, as if he were underlining the important words of each clause.
The manuscript is scored with underlining, single, double and treble, to guide the voice in reading from it; it has interest as illustrating the technical devices which a great orator employed for a special occasion; and for this speech he spared no effort.
I have talked to you so much about him, that you will probably laugh at my attempting to tell you anything new. I'm not going to try, and you are to consider all I say as merely a sort of underlining to what you already know. Please remember that he will never take a prize for his beauty nor even for his grace.
'What's the meaning of that? I demanded. 'I'll tell you what's the meaning of it, he retorted, underlining as it were each word. 'Yesterday I showed you a pocket-book containing letters from a certain person to me.... To-day you repeated to that person, with reproach with reproach, observe some expressions from those letters, without having the slightest right to do so.
"Intelligent underlining," he said, "gave a kind of abstract of an important work, and by the use of different coloured inks to mark a difference of contents, and discriminate the doctrinal from the historical or illustrative elements of an argument or exposition, the abstract became an analysis very serviceable for ready reference," This assumes, as Hamilton said, that the book to be operated on is your own, and perhaps is rather too elaborate a counsel of perfection for most of us.
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