sonny
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“So I say, ‘Well sonny boy, when I came to Mexico, you were this high, and I was cooking with your grandmothers.’
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2020
We need to save Mako big Joe and big Sam for the vital last 25 mins. look at NZ today sonny Bill and Barrett won them the game.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2015
The obvious reply for Darling would have been along the lines of: while you've been watching I've been doing it, sonny.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2010
Sony was meant to appeal to Americans--a nod to "sonny boy," which was a phrase that was popular in Japan during the 1950s.
From Inc ● Mar. 24, 2010
“Dang!” said Grandpa, “Miss Lucille must a-gone to the bathroom. Crank it agin, sonny boy.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
“Well, my sonnies, there’ll be a good strong party looking at us to-day as we go along.”
From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Thomas Hardy
"Then," said the fiddler, "I'll venture to name that the right and proper thing is 'The Soldier's Joy'—there being a gallant soldier married into the farm—hey, my sonnies, and gentlemen all?"
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
My sonnies, all true stories have a coarse touch or a bad moral, depend upon’t.
From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Thomas Hardy
But I was out-talked, sonnies, as has happened to me by my own wife, time and time agen.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
"Ah, Providence es very good, sonnies," repeated Cap'n Jack, then, turning to me, he said, "You'll be wantin' to know who this es?"
From The Birthright by Joseph Hocking
