"Fair-spoken" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gotten, it was thought, a rug of the compensations—if his father could have come out of his grave he would have brained him for it on his awn hearthstane. Some thought it was easier counting with the auld rough knight than the fair-spoken young ane—but ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various
... 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. The two Windsor wives, meeting him at a social dinner, and seeing him in his best suit of language and manners, think him honourable as well as pleasant, ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson |
