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Italics are used liberally, and verb tenses jump all over the place.
From Salon • Apr. 2, 2013
In the Little Italics of Manhattan and California he interviewed priests, millionaires, anarchists, labor leaders�all good Americans, who admired Roosevelt and Mussolini as they once admired Washington and Garibaldi.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I then commenced and continued copying the Italics in Webster’s Spelling Book, until I could make them all without looking on the book.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
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The words here printed in Italics are in rubric in the original.
In order that the words of each decree of the S. Congregation may be distinguished from those of the editors, the former are printed in Italics.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, January 1865 by Various
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