"We had a long talk, dear Miss Sally, about how much Jeremiah"-a slight accent on the name has the force of inverted COMMAS in text-"can really recollect of his own history."
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
She did not say it quite from the bottom of her heart, and as her own form of expression; but in inverted COMMAS, as it were, the primary responsibility being cook's or Jane's.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
This is certainly his meaning, but, with the exception of the words within inverted COMMAS, it is not his language.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler