sonsy
Example Sentences
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Old Mr. Loutit and lame Jimmy Flett each secures a sonsy partner.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
Susan Fergusson at five-and-forty was sonsy to the last degree.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Refusing her kind offer with thanks, I produced a sonsy specimen of Betty's laundry-work, which I rolled round my right-hand thumb.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
Sarah was delighted, so was the nurse—a young sonsy Scotch lass brought to the station on purpose to attend to baby.
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables
She wasna what people would ca' a pretty girl, for I hae seen her; but she had a sonsy face and intelligent een.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by John Mackay Wilson
