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

“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftain, o’ the puddin’ race!”

From Literary Byways by Andrews, William

Fair fa' your honest sonsie face, jolly Great chieftain o' the puddin'-race!

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

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 Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng