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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

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

The phrase in Italics is a German idiom for expressing an exact likeness.–Tr.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

In each case the Italics, as usual, designate words not existing in the Hebrew text.

From Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George