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

Weel, then, bide wi' me, an' ye'll get it ilka hour o' the day, ye sonsie, wee, talon' bit!

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

I've been deaved aboot 'im a' the day, but I haena seen the sonsie rascal nor the braw collar the Laird Provost gied 'im.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

My scarcity of English denies me the power of doing her justice in that language; but you know the Scottish idiom,—she was a bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng

His honest, sonsie, baws’nt face, Ay gat him friends in ilka place.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert