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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

Italics in the original are indicated by underscores around the text.

From A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into Christian Songs, and How Lawful and Necessary It Is to Compose Other Hymns According to the Clearer Revelations of the Gospel, for the Use of the Christian Church. by Watts, Isaac

Agnes wept as she perused the foreboding lines, which he had marked in what printers call Italics, in the second stanza, by drawing a line under them.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various