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

“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

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

XLI Then the stout Knight of Trony spoke these fair words aloud, "Now in God's name welcome all ye champions proud, The Lord of Bechlaren and his followers bold."

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown