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

I believe you; and for that matter the wench seemed fair-spoken enough, and gave me a drink of cider.

From Hetty Wesley by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Now the man into whose house he had turned, though he was a fair-spoken man, and one who knew well how to seem honest and true, was altogether a deceiver. 

From The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes by Wilberforce, Samuel

He was a fair-spoken gentleman, and I thought you were friends...

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.