sonsy

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Sometimes it was the rickety, black-timbered porch, garlanded with vine; a sonsy, blond-haired young Flemish maiden sat there, and twirled the bobbins on a lace-cushion, in a warm yellow flicker of sunshine.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

Davey saw no more of her than her sonsy face, surrounded with the fair wisps of curls.

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

A change came over her sonsy, smiling face.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Still these sonsy Scots kept a good heart and were able to jest at their misfortunes with the grim humour that belongs to their race.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

I know it will be said of Lord Lufton himself that, putting aside his peerage and broad acres, and handsome, sonsy face, he was not worth a girl's care and love.

From Framley Parsonage by Trollope, Anthony