sonsy

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Mrs. Lynde was behind her, sonsy, kindly, matronly, as of yore.

From Anne of the Island by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

There 's sonsy James, wha wears a wig, A widower fresh and canty, Though turn'd o' sixty, gaes fu' trig, He 's rich, and rowes in plenty.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Quoth Rab to Kate, My sonsy dear, I 've woo'd ye mair than half a-year, An' if ye 'd wed me, ne'er cou'd speer Wi' blateness, an' the care o't.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Not indigenous to the soil, but a firmly rooted, exotic growth, was the sonsy Scotch family whom Miselle was taken to see, the Sunday after her arrival.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

There was just one other inmate of this sequestered apartment—a large, sonsy, gaucy cat.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various