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

Dr. George Ross and Mr. Alexander McGregor shook Bobby's lifted paw and called him a sonsie rascal.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

Indeed, guidman," replied Grizzel, "it is as sonsie a lass bairn as ever I saw in my life, and a's richt.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

It's juist fulish things, aboot haein' mair to eat, an' a sonsie doggie to play wi', an' twa gude legs to tak' me aboot.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

Fair fa' your honest sonsie face,  Great chieftain o' the puddin' race!

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel