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moved and his manner unwontedly demonstrative
I observed, as my uncle spoke, that his voice was unnaturally moved and his manner unwontedly demonstrative.
— from The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson

men and his magnanimity under defeat
His modesty in victory shows him to be one of the greatest among men, and his magnanimity under defeat confirms him to be a Christian hero.
— from Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

mightily as he moves us deftly
And as to Beethoven, deeply as he sunk his shaft into the profound of human emotion, mightily as he moves us, deftly as he expresses even the lighter moods of feeling (rarely, however, without some passing touch which, if pushed a little further, might become almost fierceness), is there not sometimes, and perhaps more than sometimes, a morbidness, noble, magnificent, but still morbidness, in his moods?
— from The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

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