I didn't want to "do Maine" in the sense of using a lot of down-east dialect or local color. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The captain, while not the sweetest-natured man in the world, was only an average down-east driver, neither brilliant nor slovenly in his seamanship, neither cruel nor sentimental in the treatment of his men. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Extreme down-east still likely to get another inch or two of rain. ❋ Jhetley (2008)
I am afraid that "down east" does not carry the same flavor and flow as "down-east." ❋ Jhetley (2006)
Stock Day obviously thinks in Stone Age terms if he refers to "down-east spearchuckers". ❋ Ed Hollett (2006)
Here's what those "down-east" types think of when it comes to missile weapons, political or otherwise: ❋ Ed Hollett (2006)
The only people I'm happy for are the families stationed in Fort Bragg, or some other small military town in down-east North Carolina, a wife or a son who might be able to breathe 1/9th easier on the off-chance that this event may un-inspire a terrorist or two from taking out one of their husbands or fathers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Fingers asked in her down-east accent as she stared at the her radar scope. ❋ Douglass, Keith (2000)
He's a down-east personality from New England, sort of dour. ❋ Unknown (1984)
I hope to be able to have time to touch on that in more detail in a few moments, but let me simply say here that, as a result of this new dimension, we could very well be said to have "boxed the compass", if I can use a down-east expression. ❋ Unknown (1978)
We took passage upon the clipper ship _Indiaman_, a vessel of heavy tonnage sailing from New York and commanded by a "down-east" skipper named Smith. ❋ Marian Gouverneur (N/A)
It seemed that, once upon a time, when the Chinese was involved, head and heels, with some rascally down-east ❋ Charles Boardman Hawes (N/A)
"That's a fact," said Seth Allport, with the full power of his down-east nasal intonation. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I lay the whole blame of the transaction, however, on the narrow shoulders of my lanky "down-east" proprietor: -- _he_ is the man to blame in the matter, not I! ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I sometimes have thought upon the possible career of our poet if his life had been passed in the suburbs of the down-east Athens, among serenities and mutualities so auspicious to the genius and repute of that shining group lately gathered to the past. ❋ Various (N/A)
Of all the queer families in the mountains, not one, surely, equalled that of Squire Perkins, a real down-east Yankee, whose house was not more than a mile west of Malden's Mill, on the Frost Creek road. ❋ Frederick Vining Fisher (N/A)
Ned Rogers, a "down-east" plucky lad ships as cabin boy to earn a livelihood. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The mate, Mr. Bowen, was an energetic, down-east Yankee, with a drawl as long as the deep sea line, and almost as much twisted. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
Miss Dennihan, sister of "Doc" Dennihan, was undeniably If-only Jim's exact antithesis -- a scrupulously tidy, exacting lady, so severe in her virtues and so acrid in denunciations of the lack of down-east circumspection that nearly every man in camp shied off from her abode as he might have shied from a bath in nitric acid. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)
[Laura] has a [hot body] but that that big Down East Chin is [a problem]. ❋ Chinwambam (2010)
Steve [passed out] drunk so I tried to [wake] him up with a [down east hammer] ❋ PbnJjuggler (2019)
