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

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 McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon

Ay, I'll no' be forgetting the sonsie tyke.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

He held it fast, and her too, for a minute, while his other hand busied itself with fastening in her belt a dewy, sweet, sonsie looking little sprig of May roses.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

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