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

“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

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

The last of the callers, carrying off Mrs. Marshall-Smith with her, had taken an urbane, fair-spoken departure.

From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield