sonsy
Example Sentences
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There 's sonsy James, wha wears a wig, A widower fresh and canty, Though turn'd o' sixty, gaes fu' trig, He 's rich, and rowes in plenty.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
A change came over her sonsy, smiling face.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
She listened to the talk of the men with a faint smile about her weary lips, her eyes upon the sonsy range.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
Not indigenous to the soil, but a firmly rooted, exotic growth, was the sonsy Scotch family whom Miselle was taken to see, the Sunday after her arrival.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
For ladies, we had her Grace of—; and her daughter Lady—, a fine, buxom, sonsy lass, with more colour than, I am sorry to say, is often seen among fine ladies.
From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Sir George Otto Trevelyan
