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

It seemed a pity that this stranger—and so fair-spoken a stranger, moreover—should be close at hand, without making her father's acquaintance.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

In this fair-spoken message we unhappily find no suggestion that Austria would stop its mobilization, or its military operations against Servia.

From The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia by Beck, James M. (James Montgomery)

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