1952, The Centenary of Sts. Peter and Paul's Parish, Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Story of the First One Hundred Years of the Catholic Church in Hamilton County:

There was a tremendous outpouring of support.

This unremitting insistence on his color, this continual shunting him into obscure and filthy ways, gradually gave Peter a loathly sensation.

[…] the sight of the blade which glistened by moonlight in his face, checked, in some sort, the ardour of his assailant […]