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
You need not grizzle at a creature because he admires a wee gairl that is just beyond the lave,—a sonsie wee thing with a glint in her een like diamonds.”
From Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
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 Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
One was a sonsie good-wife with any amount of bundles, the other a little old man with a face of almost superhuman wisdom.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
Poor Prince Charlie—so sonsie and braw, a fugitive in his own land—he fled to Loch Morich, followed by Maggie McWhistle in her plaidie, carrying some haggis and baps to comfort him in his exile.
From Terribly Intimate Portraits by Lorn Loraine
