Examples of its ordinary use:

Hail, source of Being! universal Soul!

How mischievous are the effects of war!

O excellent guardian of the sheep!—a wolf![62]

Alas for his poor family!

Alas, my noble boy! that thou shouldst die!

Ah me! she cried, and waved her lily hand.

O despiteful love! unconstant womankind!

Marks of Parenthesis.