fair words

Example Sentences

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My client replied with words about how this wasn’t fair, words that argued that I told him—encouraged him!—to explore all of his complicated feelings in his essays.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2018

In bistro and Metro French men, wooed by fair words and wheat from the U.S.S.R., felt that the West was at last concerned for the future of France.

From Time Magazine Archive

That night the Company was again summoned to the chamber of Celeborn, and there the Lord and Lady greeted them with fair words.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“It can’t be done by fighting or fair words, no. So it will have to be done by means of a trick.”

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

So absorbing did this topic prove that they were both quite aggrieved when Mr. Christie came to ask Elizabeth to sing, and with many fair words and set phrases led her to the piano.

From The Setons by Douglas, O.