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
He was a fair-spoken gentleman, and I thought you were friends...
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.
“But I have engaged to sail with Captain Hawk, and he seems a fair-spoken man,” I urged.
From Peter the Whaler by Austin, Henry
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
