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

Mr Sanderson seems a fair-spoken man, but there’s one thing I would have you remember, that he is not Jock McKillock himself.

From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The keepers of these houses seemed very fair-spoken men.

From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

Let not my mistress in her unkindness kill any of her fair-spoken adorers. 

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir