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Between the bank of the Choptank River and the village green in leisurely, New Englandish Denton, Md., stands the Caroline County Jail.

From Time Magazine Archive

His nearest affinity is Turner, though a more restrained and New Englandish Turner.

From Time Magazine Archive

A tall, leisurely, very New Englandish, smooth-shaven young man, now coming decidedly grey just over the ears.

From Turns about Town by Holliday, Robert Cortes

Northern Ohio is more New Englandish than Southern Ohio, and the parallel holds good in Northern and Southern Illinois.

From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Knox, Thomas Wallace