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)

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.

He is a fribble, a sonsy faddle, whose conceits veer with the breeze like a creaking weather-vane.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

He was as proud of the sonsy house as Gourlay himself, if for a different reason, and he used to boast of it to his comrades.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

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

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