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.

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

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