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

“Well, I pity him from my heart; for he is a good youth and a fair-spoken and a handsome, too; and I’m sure that he has no idea of his unfortunate situation.”

From The Privateersman by Marryat, Frederick

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

You are fair-spoken enough; but men with protections don’t jump out of windows and try to make off at the sight of a pressgang.

From True Blue by Kingston, William Henry Giles