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

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 Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Ay, I'll no' be forgetting the sonsie tyke.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

Indeed, guidman," replied Grizzel, "it is as sonsie a lass bairn as ever I saw in my life, and a's richt.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

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