quahaug

I should have been fearful that she was not happy, that she was already repenting her rashness in promising to marry the Bayport "quahaug," but occasionally she looked at me, and, whenever she did, the wireless message our eyes exchanged, sent that quahaug aloft on a flight through paradise.

Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

If those two had not met I should not be writing this to-day, I might not be writing at all; instead of having become a Bayport "quahaug" I might have been the Lord knows what.

Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

a solitary, queer, self-centered old bachelor, a "quahaug," as my fellow-Bayporters called me.

Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

I shudder to think of the dancing pastel quahaug maids sent to represent Rhode Island.

"These are not just regular costumes. These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind." Ann Althouse 2009

In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms.

Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms Henry Louis 1921

The other boarders looked like quahaug dories abreast of the

Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But the Christmas trade had been good and, thanks to Nathaniel's enterprise and effort, the scallop fishermen, the quahaug rakers, and the members of the life-saving crews were once more buying their outfits at the Metropolitan Store instead of patronizing Mr.J. Cohen and The Emporium.

Cap'n Dan's Daughter Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

I thought probably you had gone to dig another quahaug.

Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

She and Jimmie Bacheldor picked up shells, built sand forts, skipped flat stones along the surface of the water at high tide, and picked up scallops and an occasional quahaug at low water.

Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

She seemed a little relieved, I thought, but when _I_ asked questions she shut up like a quahaug.

Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907