"Underscore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the carat (^) and underscore () introduce superscripts or subscripts respectively, of one character or a group enclosed in curly braces ({xyz}). Elsewhere underscores delimit italics in the text, and braces enclose the original page numbers ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan
... Dragon," I added, "Wilkinson would recognize her if she were in the middle of a thousand sail, and indeed a farmer's boy would be able to distinguish her for her uncommon oddness of figure." I was satisfied to underscore the words "a rich ship," quite certain his imagination would be sufficiently fired by the expression. At anything further I durst not hint, as the letter would be open for ...
— The Frozen Pirate • W. Clark Russell |
