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 last of the callers, carrying off Mrs. Marshall-Smith with her, had taken an urbane, fair-spoken departure.

From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

The keepers of these houses seemed very fair-spoken men.

From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

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