"Glib-tongued" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rid the community of him. We all know that from the porch of Snyder's store he has been preaching doctrines that are not only revolutionary but, if the ladies will pardon me, I will call damnable. What good is it for us to have Mr. Pound in the pulpit for one day of the week, and this glib-tongued man contradicting him for seven. Yet no statute forbids him to do this. What can ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
... was destined to be the scene of the most dramatic portion of the struggle between the entrenched interests and the union loggers. Here the long persecuted industrialists made a stand for their lives and fought to defend their own, thus giving the glib-tongued lawyers of the prosecution the opportunity of accusing them of "wantonly murdering unoffending paraders" ...
— The Centralia Conspiracy • Ralph Chaplin
... father's law office and pretended he was representing some great business in the West, until he was welcomed as a promising client. He hung around and when she came in one day her father was forced to introduce them. The remainder is the same world-old story——a good looking, glib-tongued man, plying every art known to an expert, ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter
... from the Land of the Free by a phrase I heard him use in the cars: he said, "I'll bet a dollar." Yet I must flatter myself that Americans do not always thus betray themselves. I happened, on the Isle of Wight, to hear a bland landlord "blow up" his glib-tongued son because the latter had not driven a stiffer bargain with us for the hire of a carriage ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... a glib-tongued fellow who announced that he would first offer for sale the Right to Sell Intoxicating Drink. "How much do I hear?" shouted the auctioneer as the ...
— Mr. World and Miss Church-Member • W. S. Harris |
