Holier-than-thou types

Usage examples of bluenoses.

I wish the Bluenoses would find as good an excuse in their rumps for running backwards as he has.

He was evidently annoyed, and with his usual dexterity gave vent to his feelings by a sally upon the Bluenoses, who he says are a cross of English and Yankee, and therefore first cousins to us both.

I tell you, to hear the Bluenoses, when they get together, talk politics.

Now, we deal in black niggers only, but the Bluenoses sell their own species--they trade in white slaves.