bonny
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And Coach Kliff Kingsbury, the bonny prince plucked from Texas Tech in 2019, was scheduled to receive his comeuppance by now.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
Tara Erraught is a bonny Irish lass who is almost aggressively likable.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2018
Basically, Claire pulls the 18th century equivalent of a #yesallwomen campaign, and celebrates her victory by standing on a buttress and smiling vacantly at some wee bonny children.
From Time ● Aug. 16, 2014
"You're a bonny fellow to frighten children so," one of the regulars admonished him as he finished the tale.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2014
“Not at all—it bears the most gracious message in the world: for the rest, you are not my conscience-keeper, so don’t make yourself uneasy. Here, come in, bonny wanderer!”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
While some of his ban mots may have grown bonnier in telling, and others may be wholly apocryphal, who can say for sure?
From Time Magazine Archive
“Not a bit, and you never will. You’ve grown bigger and bonnier, but you are the same scapegrace as ever.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
A pair of bonnier lasses could not have been found in the whole of Cape Colony!
From The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa by J. Percy-Groves
One year ago no happier, bonnier, brighter face could have been seen at the Point than that of Nannie McKay.
From Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier by Charles King
Lowly there thou lies, my lassie, Lowly there thou lies; A bonnier form ne'er went to the yird Nor frae it will arise!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
The prams of Britain are filled with the bonniest babies in living memory.
From Time Magazine Archive
So he suggested a cat instead, “the bonniest little cat ye ever did see.”
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
"O I hae been east, and I hae been west, An' I hae been far o'er the knowes, But the bonniest lass that ever I saw55 Is i' the bought, milking the ewes."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
How! how!" answered the gaberlunzie, taking the pipes suddenly frae his mouth—"no let ye dance wi' a decent callant, the bonniest hensure o' the hail menyie!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
I’m going to build a small house and kennels, and I’m going to marry Fanny—the bonniest lassie in all the world, sir.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
