sonsy

Example Sentences

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Susan Fergusson at five-and-forty was sonsy to the last degree.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Judging from her round, sonsy, rosy face, you never could have imagined her to have been mad.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

She tied up her sonsy beast, that was, like herself, fat as pats of butter, to the yettpost of the miser's garden.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Davey saw no more of her than her sonsy face, surrounded with the fair wisps of curls.

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

A change came over her sonsy, smiling face.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)