sonsie
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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
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
Fair fa' your honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin' race!
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
Syne she saw the sonsie puppy loupin' at Auld Jock's heels, bonny as a poodle, but mair knowin'.
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
Poor Prince Charlie—so sonsie and braw, a fugitive in his own land—he fled to Loch Morich, followed by Maggie McWhistle in her plaidie, carrying some haggis and baps to comfort him in his exile.
From Terribly Intimate Portraits by Lorn Loraine
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