sonsy

Example Sentences

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She was a big, sonsy woman, with full-blown peony cheeks and large, dreamy, brown eyes.

From Further Chronicles of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

I know it will be said of Lord Lufton himself that, putting aside his peerage and broad acres, and handsome, sonsy face, he was not worth a girl's care and love.

From Framley Parsonage by Trollope, Anthony

Sometimes it was the rickety, black-timbered porch, garlanded with vine; a sonsy, blond-haired young Flemish maiden sat there, and twirled the bobbins on a lace-cushion, in a warm yellow flicker of sunshine.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

John studied her face for a moment It was a sonsy and simple face, and her eyes were not unkindly.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

Judging from her round, sonsy, rosy face, you never could have imagined her to have been mad.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna