sonsy

Example Sentences

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David, as he trudged sorrowfully homeward across the fields, carried with him the mental picture of a plump, sonsy woman, in a trim dress of plum-coloured homespun and ruffled blue-check apron, haloed by candlelight.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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

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)

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

"Is she a pretty girl?" said the Duke; "her sister does not get beyond a good comely sonsy lass."

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir