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

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

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

The earliest of these transactions affianced one of Davidson's lads to a braw sonsie lass, daughter of Benson, the Shropshire settler beyond the 'Corner.'

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely

A thocht ahint, in runkled breeks, A’ spiled wi’ lyin’ by for weeks, The guidman follows closs, an’ cleiks The sonsie missis; His sarious face at aince bespeaks The day that this is.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I was just having a sonsie wee bit of a dream.

From The Scotch Twins by Perkins, Lucy Fitch