1894 Canton Times (MS) 29 Sept. 2/4: You should have seen Dudell when I told him you were going to break his face.at break someone’s face, v.
1894 Canton Times (MS) 29 Sept. 2/4: As nature had deal him a ghood hand, he lived ‘on velvet’.at on velvet (adj.) under velvet, n.
1896 Canton Times (MS) 24 July 5/2: Two men were killed [...] the result of blind tiger whiskey.at blind tiger, n.
1897 Canton Times (MS) 7 May 1/4: Others [...] have not yhet felt the sting of hard times as have the rest of us whom they sneeringly designate as ‘horny-handed hayseed rednecks’.at redneck, n.