How To Use Bluenose In A Sentence
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Judging by a legion of newspaper articles, books, and tourist brochures, the issue has long been settled to the satisfaction of the Bluenoses.
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‘Bluenoses were early pioneers in Canada,’ my father said as he made a bid for a third helping of lemon pie.
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He examined the group again and saw that grown men and women who dress up in padded bike shorts, gaudy polyester shirts, little fingerless gloves, and silly helmets shaped like insect heads are probably not going to be rigid bluenoses.
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And despite what he and other bluenoses seem to think, I'm pretty sure that the per capita amount of sex in the world today isn't any larger than it was a thousand years ago, rap music and pop stars notwithstanding.
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We used to have a host of words to describe the likes of him: prig, bluenose, Comstock, stuffed-shirt.
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Wilde, never very shy about his bisexuality, rebelled against the hypocrisy of the straight-laced bluenoses who kept their marriages intact but also took off for long weekends in the country with their young boyfriends -- "Bunburying" (notice the little play on words ....).
High Society
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Hollywood bluenoses, prohibition, the loose morals of Greenwich Village, religion - hardly any American phenomenon was outside his ambit.
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Libraries are about choices, or at least they should be, and it annoys the hell out of me that some bluenose thinks he or she should be able to decide for everyone else what we can and cannot read.
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Our local cop must be an "on paper" policeman as opposed to a plastic or a real one. bluenose, witney says ...
Undefined
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Nova Scotian climate is so harsh in wintertime that the seaboard Nova Scotian colonists of the eighteenth century earned the nickname 'Bluenoses' for their ability to stand the cold.
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He has a sense of humor, clearly liked the crew, swears occasionally, and saves his greatest scorn for organized bluenoses.
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* A "bluenose" is a sailor's term for a Canadian or Nova
John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904
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He urged bluenoses to take ladies of the street into their homes until they got back on their feet, so to speak.
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Though the camaraderie would remain, the awe-inspiring ice responsible for bonding us Bluenoses with the crew disappeared as we sailed out of the passage and into the slate-colored chop of Alaska's Beaufort Sea.
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Read the whole thing and resolve never to give one more inch to a bluenose feminist when it comes to entertaining such hysterical fantasies.
Psychologically Teabagged By Alex Trebek
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The latter shocked bluenoses with satanic sadism, but also reassured the devout by insisting that God and the devil were real.
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The best type is energetic but reserved; for the 'bluenose' does not consider it necessary to be self-assertive.
The Canadian Type
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Oh, and there being a widespread proliferation of interesting ARM-based designs, many available to buy on a per unit basis for reasonable sums of money, and yet RISC OS is the "devil on skis" choice, hypothetically available for such devices if people weren't too busy squabbling and playing gatekeeper with their continually depreciating "intellectual property". bluenose: "Still we can dream of another white knight riding in to produce ARM hardware
Drobe Launchpad News
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The typical 'bluenose' is the small farmer-fisherman, a handy man of many trades.
The Canadian Type
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In the movie "Bowery to Broadway" (1944), it is the members of the Murray Hill Society for Social Reform — a perfect bluenose name — who call in the police to halt a performance by the song-and-dance protagonist.
Visiting Cagney's Neighborhood
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So this is quite a choice we're left with: is it better to be a bigot who's in favor of government regulation of gay sex, or a bluenose who's in favor of government regulation of all kinds of sex?
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You need the reader to understand at a glance that some character is supposed to be an intimidating badass, or a provincial boor, or a smarmy selfish jerk, or a naive idealist, or an uptight bluenose, the quickest way to do this is by cuing the reader by invoking some stereotype complex that includes these traits.
The Wisdom of Clowns
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“Still, thought you might like to hear the last word from the bluenose himself.”
DIAMOND RUBY
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He gets regular invitations to hook up with fellow ex-pat bluenoses and take in TV games, invitations he is happy to accept.