bonny
adjective
pleasing to the eye; handsome; pretty.
bonnily
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a word derived from
bonny.
Example Sentences
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I wish we were in some force, and this was a battle, we would have bonnily outmanœuvred them!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Blathers 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 Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
In the Cotter's Saturday Night, Burns has drawn a beautiful picture of his parents' household, the rest that came at the week's end, and the family worship about the "wee bit ingle, blinkin' bonnily."
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
In the Cotter's Saturday Night Burns has drawn a beautiful picture of his parents' household, the rest that came at the week's end, and the family worship about the "wee bit ingle, blinkin' bonnily."
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Ay," says Alan, "I wish we were in some force, and this was a battle, we would have bonnily out-manoeuvred them!
