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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

The TV star wrote on Instagram he had had a "bit of a prang" but insisted things were "all nice and bonny".

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2020

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

“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

Ye couldna look better or bonnier though ye were to change your gown and tak’ an hour to do it.

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

"O, sic a geek she gave her head, And sic a toss she gave her feather; Man, saw ye ne'er a bonnier lass Before, among the blooming heather?"

From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

But a’ things are bonny to young happy eyes, and I daresay they are bonnier to me now, looking back to them over all the long years.”

From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

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

"Ay, but there is death, in the cottage as well as in the bonniest ha'," muttered Bertha, ominously.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

Also it looks its bonniest in the early morning when the dew is on all sides, and a stillness like the peace of God lies on the place.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Tidy and prim in her apron and gown, Brightest of eyes, of the bonniest brown; Tiniest fingers, and needle so fleet, Pattern of womanhood, down at my feet!

From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various