Sentence examples for bluenose from inspiring English sources

"And you're a bluenose too," chided one of the local stewards.

Mary Martin Schaefer, who is actually Canadian — a bluenose from Halifax, Nova Scotia, another big fishing town — chose Chapter 119, "The Candles".

Dedham's Boston-grandee daughter (Elizabeth Allen) arrives with a nefarious plot to do him out of an inheritance on moral grounds, but her bluenose prejudices (not least, involving her father's mixed-race children) are put to the test when she falls for the hard-living Donovan.

Be a bluenose.

"I'm not a bluenose, but this penchant for flesh is moronic and unhealthy.

It's just five words long: "You're alright, for a bluenose".

Thanks to Limbaugh's bluenose-defying usage (although he confessed to having cleared it beforehand), writers of every political persuasion now have a synonym for "joyous, blissful, rapturous, ec­static," all of which signify "over the moon" but have lately been getting long in the tooth.

"You had the feeling," Murphy says, "that the bluenoses were in the saddle over here, and that a government that could pass the Eighteenth Amendment could, and probably would, do a lot of other things to make life in the States as stuffy and bigoted as possible".

However, for the Bluenoses, as the City fans have been known for decades, there is one dodgy prawn in the Balti, the success being enjoyed across the A38.

This is just too much for law enforcement, fun-ophobes, ambitious politicians, bluenoses, and devotees of the Protestant work ethic, so a great pointless war on drugs, even on harmless weed, has been waged for five decades to no discernible deterrent effect.

Many people, including a good few Bluenoses for that matter, will think that a place in the top 10 is as good as it gets for Birmingham but Carson Yeung, the Hong Kong-based businessman who assumed control at St Andrew's last October, clearly has other ideas.