How To Use Sonsy In A Sentence
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“Is she a pretty girl?” said the Duke; “her sister does not get beyond a good comely sonsy lass.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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We looked for our share of the victuals, but they told me old bl -- bl "---- Again he hesitated, evidently afraid that some" unsonsy "thing was behind him.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
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Given a decent education, a fair fortune, a good-looking and vigorous husband to whom she had taken a fancy, and no special temptation, and she might have been a blameless, merry, "sonsy" _commere_, and have died in an odor of very reasonable sanctity.
The Celibates
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John studied her face for a moment It was a sonsy and simple face, and her eyes were not unkindly.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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But Jock cam' to questions, and being a fallow/Stout, buirdly and sonsy, he soon pleased her taste,/And awa' went the twasome, haup-jaup in their daffin',/Thro' wynds and blind alleys no time for to waste.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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Given a decent education, a fair fortune, a good-looking and vigorous husband to whom she had taken a fancy, and no special temptation, and she might have been a blameless, merry, "sonsy" _commere_, and have died in an odor of very reasonable sanctity.
The Celibates
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Elspeth would have called her sonsy, signifying bonny and buxom.
Flashman on the March
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McKinnon thrang with the dealers, and Mirren not far off still sonsy -- when we passed there I saw that Margaret was all trembling; and when we saw Bryde, tall and swarthy, coming to us, I saw the smiling in her eyes and her face aglow.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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But it will be past sunset afore I get back frae the Captain's, and at these unsonsy hours the glen has a bad name; there's something no that canny about auld Janet Gellatley.
Waverley — Volume 2
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But Jock cam' to questions, and being a fallow/Stout, buirdly and sonsy, he soon pleased her taste,/And awa' went the twasome, haup-jaup in their daffin',/Thro' wynds and blind alleys no time for to waste.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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Groaning under the '_sonsy haggis_,' [85] and many other savoury dainties, unseen for twelve months before, the relish communicated to the company, by the appearance of the festive board, is more easily conceived than described.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
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A 1920s guidebook described Shandy Hall as "sonsy"– a Scottish word meaning good-natured, and that's true.
Life in a medieval home
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To his face she referred to him as a doited sumph, but to Grizel pleading for him she admitted that despite his warts and quarrelsome legs he was a great big muckle sonsy, stout, buirdly well set up, wise-like, havering man.
Tommy and Grizel
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` ` Wha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain thou? '' said an old woman, apparently in great indignation.
The Waverley
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‘Wha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain, thou?’ said an old woman, apparently in great indignation.
Waverley
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But it will be past sunset afore I get back frae the Captain's, and at these unsonsy hours the glen has a bad name --- there's something no that canny about auld Janet Gellatley.
The Waverley
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It ain't easy for a sonsy matron with blonde curls to look like the wrath of God, but she was managing uncommon well.
Watershed
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'Wha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain, thou?' said an old woman, apparently in great indignation.
Waverley — Complete
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‘Ye may swear that,’ replied the provost — ‘as black a Jacobite as the auld leaven can make him; but a sonsy, merry companion, that none of us think it worth while to break wi’ for all his brags and his clavers.
Redgauntlet
