The thoughts in the fifth Stanza come fairly up to my favorite idea [of] a sweet sonsy Lass.
Stanza the second I am well pleased with; and I think it conveys a fine idea of that amiable part of the Sex--the agreeables, or what in our Scotch dialect we call a sweet sonsy Lass.
Dan's smile was broader and broader, and I noticed the red blood flaming in the cheeks of our own sonsy dairy lassies, Liz and Betty.
That wasna the skirl o' a ghost, but a hail frae a sonsy lass--but what gars her risk her bonny legs in yon daft-like wie beats me.
Ower holy was hanged, but rough and sonsy wan awa'.
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.
She listened to the talk of the men with a faint smile about her weary lips, her eyes upon the sonsy range.
John studied her face for a moment It was a sonsy and simple face, and her eyes were not unkindly.
Old Mr. Loutit and lame Jimmy Flett each secures a sonsy partner.
Still these sonsy Scots kept a good heart and were able to jest at their misfortunes with the grim humour that belongs to their race.
Dinna ye see that ye hae made the douce sonsy lad that he disna ken where to look?
I hae seen her a braw sonsy lass; but even then I feared she was devoted to destruction, for she aye mockit at religion, Bessie, and that's no a good mark of a young body.
She tied up her sonsy beast, that was, like herself, fat as pats of butter, to the yettpost of the miser's garden.
Susan Fergusson at five-and-forty was sonsy to the last degree.
Father Corrigan was correct enough; but when the friar got up, he ran a little to the one side, upsetting Sonsy Mary that sat a little beyond him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sonsy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
