fair-spoken
Example Sentences
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For 70 of these 90 years, he has been 'a scholar and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading.'
From Time Magazine Archive
‘I am Mr. Brandybuck. Is that enough for you? The Bree-folk used to be fair-spoken to travellers, or so I had heard.’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The tongue was soft and fair-spoken, the hand seemed generous enough, but this by all accounts had been so even with Drimdarroch himself, and Drimdarroch was rotten to the core.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
He was a fair-spoken youth, obviously of some education.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by John Hartman Morgan
I believe you; and for that matter the wench seemed fair-spoken enough, and gave me a drink of cider.
From Hetty Wesley by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
