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

Sandy remarked, "Ye wadna think, noo, sic a sonsie doggie wad be leevin' i' the murky auld kirkyaird."

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

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

The likeness of some ewe-milking, cheese-making sonsie Hepburn hath descended to thee, and hath been fostered by country breeding.

From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The thoughts in the fifth stanza come finely up to my favourite idea—a sweet sonsie lass: the last line, however, halts a little.

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