The man spoke with the thickest down-home Yankee accent she had ever heard.

The Yankee accent was so thick that it sounded almost like a joke.

I've lived in Maine my whole life, and for me the amusement value of burlesque Yankee accents has worn pretty thin.

Her Yankee accent in that scene was pretty funny, too.

I don't want no Yankee accent.

Lieutenant Davidson was definitely a man who spoke with a Yankee accent.

"Gracious no," she drawled, without a trace of Yankee accent.

Hope you haven't acquired one of those Yankee accents in the States?

He smelled like money, and had a clipped Yankee accent.

Many of those counties weren't taking refugees, but a true Yankee accent could generally talk its way through.