Suprasegmentally, there is a tendency to de-accent information which is repeated, a prominent stressing of demonstratives these and this, and modals and auxiliaries such as should and will, plus a rise-fall intonation that gives a ‘lilting’ quality.

...who told him that things were spiraling out of control in Edgehill and that the police were conducting antiriot maneuvers there.

[H]e was numbered among the missing after the Brandywine battle, and presently turned up as a hired hand on the Barton farm.

Under ſuch diſcomfiting circumſtance as general neglect, and that too palpable to be miſunderſtood, the whole of this picture was buried in oblivion; …