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
I had the pleasures that were designed for you—the ball-dress, the dances, the fair words, the music of the opera, the courtship, the excitement of the regatta, the reading of sensational novels.
From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
