All over the South, in every class of society, one finds this sensitiveness to an accusation of lack of veracity.
— from The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson

Then, instead of commencing his professional life in one of the great Eastern cities, or striking out for the broad fields of enterprise opened in the Far West, young Howe, to the astonishment of all who were acquainted with the talents and ambition of the new lawyer, returned to his native county and opened his law office in Blackville, a small hamlet lying at the foot of the Black Valley, and enjoying the honor and profit of being the county-seat.
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth