Example Sentences

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The Admiral would send to land but one boat, and in it for envoy Pedro de Terreros, a well-speaking man and known to Don Nicholas de Ovando.

From 1492 by Johnston, Mary

Yet even this might pass for tolerable, did it put young beginners in the least way to well-speaking.

From The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter by Burnaby, William

The word is accurately opposed to 'Euphemy,' the right or well-speaking of God and His world; and the two modes of speech are those which going out of the mouth sanctify or defile the man.

From The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 by Ruskin, John

A good-looking and well-speaking friend of mine, E. H.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

To be wise is the use of wisdom, as seeing is the use of eyes and well-speaking the use of eloquence.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)