bonny
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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
“It’s bonny, happy, chirpy, fun,” director Richmond says of the score, noting that it’s hardly what audiences will expect the witches to sing.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 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
"You're a bonny fellow to frighten children so," one of the regulars admonished him as he finished the tale.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2014
“Not at all—it bears the most gracious message in the world: for the rest, you are not my conscience-keeper, so don’t make yourself uneasy. Here, come in, bonny wanderer!”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
She’s just the very same Lilias Elder that used to teach the bairns and go wandering over the hills with her brother; only she’s blither and bonnier.
From The Orphans of Glen Elder by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
“But look me fairly in the face; am I not bonnier than she?”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
One year ago no happier, bonnier, brighter face could have been seen at the Point than that of Nannie McKay.
From Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier by King, Charles
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
Miss Isabel was here then, and she and Miss Robina took great pains to get me the best and the bonniest.
From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
"That's the bonniest cup o' tea I've drank for mony a year, Miss," said he.
From The Mary Frances Cook Book Adventures Among the Kitchen People by Fryer, Jane Earye
"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
