sonsie

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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

His honest, sonsie, baws’nt face, Ay gat him friends in ilka place.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Poor Prince Charlie—so sonsie and braw, a fugitive in his own land—he fled to Loch Morich, followed by Maggie McWhistle in her plaidie, carrying some haggis and baps to comfort him in his exile.

From Terribly Intimate Portraits by Loraine, Lorn

Fair fa’ your honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the puddin’ race; Aboon them a’ ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm, Weel are ye wordy of a grace As langs my arm.

From A Poetical Cook-Book by Moss, Maria J.

"Gin they had a sonsie doggie like Bobby to lo'e, an' an auld kirkyaird wi' posies an' birdies to leuk into, they wadna fecht sae muckle."

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse