"The Mick" or "Joltin' Joe"

Usage examples of yankee.

The money that poured in allowed them to restore the mansions to their antebellum splendor, and soon Yankees and Europeans traveled by thousands to this living museum of the Old South.

But he was exceedingly jolly withal, and welcomed the Yankees with pompous good-humor, despatching a sergeant for a jug of applejack, which was doubtless as inexpensive to the major as his other hospitality.

I was in Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one, sashaying into the wedding-cake lobby of the Hotel Arapahoe with beautiful Sarah Wyatt, the Yankee clock heiress, on my arm.

The name of the Yankee became a terror to every sea wolf in the western tropics, and the waters of the Bahama Islands became swept almost clean of the bloody wretches who had so lately infested it.

Here, in the days before the coming of the Yankee, they were wont to put in to careen and clean their vessels and to take in a fresh supply of provisions, gunpowder, and rum, preparatory to renewing their attacks upon the peaceful commerce circulating up and down outside the islands, or through the wide stretches of the Bahama channel.

There are wild rumors that the Yankees are bombing Bangkok, that their Marines are landing in the city, but nothing confirmed.

He went fast, knowing that his careful battle line would be shredded by the oaks, but also knowing that any chance of finding an open Yankee flank was too compelling to be ignored.

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.

It reported that Matthew Bowditch, out of the goodness of his white Yankee liberal heart, had volunteered to design a new church for a congregation of Korean Methodists whose church had been ruined in a racist arson attack.

The South Carolinian should take his two remaining regiments across Bull Run and lead a joint assault with Longstreet against the Yankee left.

No California students today are taught that the Pershing expedition of 1916 against Pancho Villa - the purported locus classicus of Yankee imperialism - actually brought back some Chinese refugees and other exploited people whom American soldiers had saved from certain extermination in Mexico.

Yankee shrewdness, great commonsense, all flavored with a dash of mysticism and indifference to physical scientific accuracy.

From a stoic swamp Yankee to a reserved federal agent to a brash aspiring criminologist, who obviously knew her own mind.

Cash that druv the Benbow carriage twell he run off with the Yankees two years ago.

Yankees came to our house and hitched a team of fine mules to a large wagon and loaded it with grain and feedstuffs, then hitched up another span of good mules to a smaller wagon and loaded it with all the provisions they could find in the house.