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

The tongue was soft and fair-spoken, the hand seemed generous enough, but this by all accounts had been so even with Drimdarroch himself, and Drimdarroch was rotten to the core.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

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)

You are fair-spoken enough; but men with protections don’t jump out of windows and try to make off at the sight of a pressgang.

From True Blue by Kingston, William Henry Giles