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
Fair fa’ your honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the puddin’ race; Aboon them a’ ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm, Weel are ye wordy of a grace As langs my arm.
From A Poetical Cook-Book by Maria J. Moss
Fair fa' your honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin' race!
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
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 Robert Burns
"But Tammy's hauded 'im for Maister Brown, an' he says it's sonsie to gie the bonny wee a washin'."
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
