sonsy

Example Sentences

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"Fair fa' yer honest, sonsy face, Great chieftain o' the puddin' race."

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mill, Mrs. (Jean Oliver)

Still these sonsy Scots kept a good heart and were able to jest at their misfortunes with the grim humour that belongs to their race.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

He was as proud of the sonsy house as Gourlay himself, if for a different reason, and he used to boast of it to his comrades.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

A change came over her sonsy, smiling face.

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

She wasna what people would ca' a pretty girl, for I hae seen her; but she had a sonsy face and intelligent een.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay