fair-spoken
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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 keepers of these houses seemed very fair-spoken men.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
"He's a fair-spoken man, Edmonson; I kind of think he'll square it up, after all," he said hopefully.
From The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories by Margaret Collier Graham
Blarney-stone, a stone in Castle Blarney, Cork, of difficult access, which is said to endow whoso kisses it with a fair-spoken tongue, hence the application of the word.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
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