sonsy

Example Sentences

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"Fair fa' yer honest, sonsy face, Great chieftain o' the puddin' race."

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mill, Mrs. (Jean Oliver)

She wasna what people would ca' a pretty girl, for I hae seen her; but she had a sonsy face and intelligent een.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay

There 's sonsy James, wha wears a wig, A widower fresh and canty, Though turn'd o' sixty, gaes fu' trig, He 's rich, and rowes in plenty.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Sarah was delighted, so was the nurse—a young sonsy Scotch lass brought to the station on purpose to attend to baby.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

Ower holy was hanged, but rough and sonsy wan awa'.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander