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

Syne she saw the sonsie puppy loupin' at Auld Jock's heels, bonny as a poodle, but mair knowin'.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

Ere the sonsie moon was bricht, Clean awa' till mornin' licht, Mickle sleep was mine the nicht; Ha, ha, the wearin' o't!'

From Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses by Kendall, John (AKA Dum-Dum)

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

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