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Do not habitually prop your sentences on crutches, such as Italics and exclamation-points, but make them stand without aid; if they cannot emphasize themselves, these devices are commonly but a confession of helplessness.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various

But why these stones, so upright and emphatic, like exclamation-points?

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David

Mísha's signature at the end of his letters was always accompanied by peculiar flourishes, lines and dots, and he used a great many exclamation-points.

From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

French volumes of travels in the East are written as much with exclamation-points as with the letters of the alphabet.

From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

And when he prints it, in England, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whopping exclamation-points after it, and sometimes explains it in a parenthesis.

From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Twain, Mark