sonsie
Example Sentences
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Zara herself seems a fresh and sonsie young woman who has emulated her mother as a world-ranking equestrian.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2011
Ay, I'll no' be forgetting the sonsie tyke.
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
The earliest of these transactions affianced one of Davidson's lads to a braw sonsie lass, daughter of Benson, the Shropshire settler beyond the 'Corner.'
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
The likeness of some ewe-milking, cheese-making sonsie Hepburn hath descended to thee, and hath been fostered by country breeding.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Mary Yonge
There’s just a waukrif twa or three: Thrawn commentautors sweer to ’gree, Weans glowrin’ at the bumlin’ bee On windie-glasses, Or lads that tak a keek a-glee At sonsie lasses.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
