One was to stand in the open at dinner-time and see the flitting forms of the healthy, rosy sonsie bairns in the wood, and from the door in the afternoon to watch the schule skail till each group was lost in the kindly shadow, and the merry shouts died away in this quiet place.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
She was a bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass.
"Robert Burns"
Principal Shairp
Poor Prince Charlie-so sonsie and braw, a fugitive in his own land-he fled to Loch Morich, followed by Maggie McWhistle in her plaidie, carrying some haggis and baps to comfort him in his exile.
"Terribly Intimate Portraits"
Noël Coward