What is "presque isle"

Usage examples of "presque isle".

They headed south loaded down with pulpwood, paper, and potatoes, and north with manufactured goods for those towns of what Maine people sometimes called the Big Northern - Bangor, Millinocket, Machias, Presque Isle, Houlton.

I'll settle down in the Presque Isle and short-order a few eggs and let the rest of the world go by.

They laid on an airplane and a rental car at the Presque Isle airport.

He would be all right, and if anything happened, he was in radio contact and more plows would be coming up behind, keeping the southbound barrel of the turnpike open all the way from Presque Isle to Millinocket.

Handy, who used to be in the same profession and was retired to his own diner now in Presque Isle, Maine, was Parker's contact with the rest of the bent world.

They flew over the city, circled Presque Isle Park, sent the plane several miles in each direction along Federal Highway 41.

Beginning in March 1813, he directed construction of an armed flotilla at Presque Isle (present-day Erie), Pennsylvania, while drilling his sailors in artillery technique.

Now Handy was retired again, running a diner in Presque Isle, Maine.

So Parker talked to her, telling her about Handy, running a diner now up in Presque Isle, Maine.

His third, a good boy, died in a collision with a pulpwood truck up around Presque Isle -- back in 1973, that was.

Nate only knew that he had no quarrel with those Gongs, that they weren't going to be in Mars Hill or Presque Isle in the immediate future.