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
The TV star wrote on Instagram he had had a "bit of a prang" but insisted things were "all nice and bonny".
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2020
“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
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
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
No a bonnier or better pair between this and Johnny Groat's, and just a real bargain as to price.'
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various
And oh, hinny, but your mother had been a weel-faured woman in her day!—I never saw her but a cold corpse, and I thought, even then, that I had never looked upon a bonnier face.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
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 Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
Tidy and prim in her apron and gown, Brightest of eyes, of the bonniest brown; Tiniest fingers, and needle so fleet, Pattern of womanhood, down at my feet!
From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various
I’m going to build a small house and kennels, and I’m going to marry Fanny—the bonniest lassie in all the world, sir.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
