Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonie
Literary usage of Bonie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"The Contented Cottager, On the bonie banks of Ayr to meet, The Fête Champêtre.
... Alas ! that e'er a bonie face S. The Poste. It was upon a Lammas night, ..."
2. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1877)
"... As day was dawin in the sky, We drank a health to bonie Mary. ... bonie Mary, &c.
[We believe the localities mentioned in the opening stanza of this ..."
3. The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1909)
"THE bonie LASS OF ... MY heart is wae, and unco wae, To think upon the raging
sea, That roars between her gardens green An' the bonie Lass of Albany. ..."
4. The Poetry of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1897)
"Ne'er sae murky blew the night That drifted o'er the hill, But bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
Gat grist to her mill. THERE WAS A bonie LASS THERE was a bonie lass, ..."
5. A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed by Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"bonie DOON Ye flowery banks o' bonie Boon, How can ye blume sae fair? ... Thou'll
break my heart, thou bonie bird, s That sings upon the bough; ..."
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