bonny
adjective
pleasing to the eye; handsome; pretty.
bonnily
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a word derived from
bonny.
Example Sentences
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The cottage sat bonnily on the brink of a glen, and almost from my very window began the steep and precipitous descent.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Out up then spak a Lennox lad, And waly but he spak bonnily!
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott
"Blethers an' havers!" cried Fanny, but she blinkit bonnily the while, an' when the tea was weel maskit, she smoored her wrath an' stappit her mooth wi' a bit o' oaten cake.
From Penelope's Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
If we could make compliments into silk gowns, Christina, you and I would be bonnily clad for the rest of our lives.
From A Knight of the Nets by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
As one man we drew our swords, nor did Cameron now gainsay us—and lifting them high up, till the sun glinted bonnily upon them, we sang our solemn banding song.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
