bonny
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They added: "A sad loss at such a young age. RIP Dale. Sleep well bonny lad."
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2023
And Coach Kliff Kingsbury, the bonny prince plucked from Texas Tech in 2019, was scheduled to receive his comeuppance by now.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
Tara Erraught is a bonny Irish lass who is almost aggressively likable.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2018
Basically, Claire pulls the 18th century equivalent of a #yesallwomen campaign, and celebrates her victory by standing on a buttress and smiling vacantly at some wee bonny children.
From Time ● Aug. 16, 2014
Still, it was a June day to be blithe and bonny in.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
While some of his ban mots may have grown bonnier in telling, and others may be wholly apocryphal, who can say for sure?
From Time Magazine Archive
“Not a bit, and you never will. You’ve grown bigger and bonnier, but you are the same scapegrace as ever.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Much more, Sir Knight, for thee I’ll do, For sheer goodwill and affection pure; I will for thee a bonnier bride Than any elfin maid procure.
From Ermeline a ballad by George Henry Borrow
A pair of bonnier lasses could not have been found in the whole of Cape Colony!
From The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa by J. Percy-Groves
"O, sic a geek she gave her head, And sic a toss she gave her feather; Man, saw ye ne'er a bonnier lass Before, among the blooming heather?"
From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
The prams of Britain are filled with the bonniest babies in living memory.
From Time Magazine Archive
So he suggested a cat instead, “the bonniest little cat ye ever did see.”
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
"O I will hae the snaw-white boy,25 The bonniest of the three."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
As I was going o'er Tipple Tine, I met a flock of bonny swine; Some green-lapp'd, Some green-back'd; They were the very bonniest swine That e'er went over Tipple Tine.
From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various
Also it looks its bonniest in the early morning when the dew is on all sides, and a stillness like the peace of God lies on the place.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
