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

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 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

I was just having a sonsie wee bit of a dream.

From The Scotch Twins by Perkins, Lucy Fitch

There was no counter or bar, and the liquor was brought "ben" by Oliver or his sonsie wife.

From The Pilots of Pomona by Leighton, Robert

When I heard him safely round the 'sherp' turn on the staircase I looked at the sonsie, kindly face of my old nurse.

From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing