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

Falstaff is fair-spoken when he chooses to be, can talk with judgment and good sense, and has at command the arts of a gentlemanly and dignified bearing.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

My visitor was good-looking, well-dressed, fair-spoken, and gentlemanly; also well-bred and well-to-do.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

“And he’s a fine, fair-spoken young fellow; but Sir Mooray hates him like poison, and it can never be.”

From The Sapphire Cross by Fenn, George Manville