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

Indeed, guidman," replied Grizzel, "it is as sonsie a lass bairn as ever I saw in my life, and a's richt.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

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 Carey, Rosa Nouchette

"Gin they had a sonsie doggie like Bobby to lo'e, an' an auld kirkyaird wi' posies an' birdies to leuk into, they wadna fecht sae muckle."

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

Fair fa' your honest sonsie face, jolly Great chieftain o' the puddin'-race!

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan