sonsie
Example Sentences
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Zara herself seems a fresh and sonsie young woman who has emulated her mother as a world-ranking equestrian.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2011
One was a sonsie good-wife with any amount of bundles, the other a little old man with a face of almost superhuman wisdom.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
You need not grizzle at a creature because he admires a wee gairl that is just beyond the lave,—a sonsie wee thing with a glint in her een like diamonds.”
From Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Syne she saw the sonsie puppy loupin' at Auld Jock's heels, bonny as a poodle, but mair knowin'.
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
My scarcity of English denies me the power of doing her justice in that language, but you know the Scottish idiom: she was a "bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass."
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
