| 单词 | smooth-spoken |
| 例句 | Interrogation scenes are a staple of crime shows, where wily, smooth-spoken police officers in closed rooms strategically grill their subjects into telling all. ‘Is This a Room’ Review: Why’d She Blow the Whistle? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z When elected to the legislature he meets many smooth-spoken gentlemen whose schemes are so plausible that he readily assents to them,—but not an octopus does he see. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Little and quiet and smooth-spoken, he could put the legal leather into the biggest bullies the other side could hire. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z The Abbot, smiling and crafty as always, patiently awaited the time, so sure to come, when noise and clamor should exhaust itself, and his own smooth-spoken counsel should prevail. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Then they sheltered a smooth-spoken Italian called Giuseppe, who nearly got them into terrible trouble. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Schoolmaster he says they are both deep in witchcraft, and young madam worse than the old mounseer, for all her prettiness and her smooth-spoken ways. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z The men who have done valiant service are not all smooth-spoken gentlemen in black coats—but what of it? The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Others noticed the change which had come over the once sleek, smooth-spoken young man. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z A smooth-spoken young gentleman came forward to receive her. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z During this general carousal of the grateful host, the smooth-spoken purveyor-general, who was completely at a loss to comprehend the meaning of the liberality extended, advanced with a sleek and pampered band of parasites. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z And with a “Thank you,” and raising his hat once more, this smooth-spoken fellow, impervious to sarcasm, turned away. The Girl From Tim's Place During the two or three days he had spent in London on his arrival from India he had neither been repelled nor attracted by the smooth-spoken gentleman who had taken him in tow. A Traitor's Wooing He was not a smooth-spoken fellow, but he did not wish to offend Lord Medenham. Cynthia's Chauffeur He was a very sleek, smooth-spoken fellow: the top of his shaved head shone like a billiard ball, and his tail hung four feet and a half from his shoulders. John Whopper The Newsboy He set his teeth, and conquered the furious, momentary impulse to knock down this big, burly, smooth-spoken blue-uniformed official. The Dop Doctor As might be expected, Chip gave Aunt Abby a full recital of her morning’s episode as soon as she entered the house, and with it her comments upon this smooth-spoken young man. The Girl From Tim's Place Talleyrand was a distinguished and typical aristocrat of the old French school, elegant, adroit, smooth-spoken, and sharp. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) The people who wrote the newspapers Mr. Elsmere objected to, knew quite enough for the working-man—and people should not be too smooth-spoken; what the working class wanted beyond everything just now was grit. Robert Elsmere The most dangerous man was apt to be quiet and smooth-spoken. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado If we were correspondents, heads were shaken, and smooth-spoken people with stars and crowns on their shoulder-straps said they doubted very much whether Lord Roberts would grant any more passes. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Oh, the she-wolf's of course—that delectable smooth-spoken wife of my brother Thomas. Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem How could he be sure that the letter had fallen into the right hands, or that this smooth-spoken swell was not a cunning agent of Rawdon's? Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life Thus the smooth-spoken young locating engineer in brown duck, serving as plowman for his company. The Quickening That done, suddenly the repressed passion breaks out, and, most characteristically, he thinks first of his mother; then of his uncle, the smooth-spoken scoundrel who has just been smiling on him and calling him 'son.' Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth He had such a stern, smooth-spoken way with him; and he seemed to know so much. A Comedy of Masks A Novel Bitterly did he now regret having cast in his lot with the smooth-spoken stranger who had been so sympathetic with him in his troubles at home. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India But Gompachi was so smooth-spoken and so well liked by his comrades, that he easily persuaded Seibei to hush the matter up, and accompany him to the Yoshiwara for a little diversion. Tales of Old Japan Was this smooth-spoken, oracular prince of the market-place a predetermined hypocrite, shaping his words to fit the money-gathering end without regard to their demoralizing effect? The Quickening Dr. Hale, a tall, dark, keen-looking, smooth-shaven, and smooth-spoken American, received in Berlin on his arrival a welcome customarily extended only to a new-coming foreign Ambassador. The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War A tight, trig, bustling body she, black and polished as ebony, smooth-spoken and respectful, and quite a favorite with everybody. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers But would the smooth-spoken visitor have declared that he knew everything, if he had not really penetrated the mystery of her life? Baron Trigault's Vengeance He was always a villain, smooth-spoken and plausible, but a dangerous, subtle villain all the same. Beyond the City She said: "The sleek, smooth-spoken woman to whom thou gavest me, didst thou bid her to torment me with stripes, and the dungeon, and the dark, and solitude, and hunger?" Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair He watched the newspapers, too—but no longer was he to be taken in by smooth-spoken agents. The Jungle Could it really be possible, was what I kept wondering, that this smooth-spoken, pleasant-mannered man was actually a criminal? The Four Faces A Mystery He's quiet like and smooth-spoken, but when he does 'it he 'its 'ard, and when he shoots he shoots mortal straight. With Edged Tools Failing in this, the exasperated cotton-broker swore that he would have his heart's blood, for he knew the sly, smooth-spoken Yankee was at the bottom of it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 The people who wrote the newspapers Mr. Elsmere objected to, know quite enough for the working-man—And people should not be too smooth-spoken; what the working class wanted beyond everything just now was grit. Robert Elsmere The smooth-spoken fellows seldom betray emotion except when cloth or tobacco is concerned; "dissimulation is as natural to them as breathing," and I have called one of their chiefs "dog" without exciting his indignation. First Footsteps in East Africa Could it possibly be that this smooth-spoken gentleman was playing a trick upon me—trying, possibly, to get something into my crude American mind without my realizing what was happening? They Call Me Carpenter "I must understand what you mean, Mr. Li Chang," said Winter sternly; for some reason, he distrusted the smooth-spoken jute merchant. Number Seventeen He had always been "smooth-spoken," and he had become "elegantly persuasive," as his friends said of him, and it was a large factor in his success. Main-Travelled Roads None had offered the slightest move to make friends with the smooth-spoken visitor. Further Adventures of Lad You know from yourselves surely that both Christian and Hopeful carried that black but smooth-spoken man within themselves. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) "Now, a plague upon all smooth-spoken hosts!" said Wayland, unable longer to suppress his mortification and uneasiness. Kenilworth |
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