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

A goodly number of bareheaded sonsie lasses, wrapped in the inevitable shawl; rather good-looking, healthy and rosy-cheeked were they, with their hair snooded back, and gathered into braids sleek and shining.

From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon

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

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 Burns, Robert

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 Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng