The Master said, “It is on this account that I hate your glib-tongued people.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Analects] Reference
Gerard should have realized silence was a bad sign for the glib-tongued young woman. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Vanished Moon]
And as clever and glib-tongued as I was, I did not think I was good enough to talk my way out of this. From Wordnik.com. [DarklyDreamingDexter]
After this manner spake the glib-tongued fellows and, behold, their speeches were as oil on the troubled waters. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
But comes there a gray-bearded, glib-tongued Greek, with his parchment scrolls, the very letters of which are painful to. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
Clan laws were not subtle, precedents were rarely cited, and there were no glib-tongued lawyers to represent the factions. From Wordnik.com. [Ironhand's Daughter]
Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious. From Wordnik.com. [For Auld Lang Syne] Reference
Then, with a sudden, childish freak of caprice, they ran off from me as if afraid, and at once rushed back again like a flock of glib-tongued and playful monkeys. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Ten steps would have taken Hurree into the creaking gloom utterly beyond their reach — to the shelter and food of the nearest village, where glib-tongued doctors were scarce. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
And from the hints the shade of Epemitreus let fall, and the counsels of King Ariostro's pack of glib-tongued star-watchers, I gather we just keep on the westward and watch for anything unlikely and odd. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
For once in a way the glib-tongued lad was at a loss just what to say and how to say it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost City] Reference
Outside, the auctioneer, a smooth-faced, glib-tongued man, was already mounting the rostrum. From Wordnik.com. [Pearl-Maiden] Reference
Perhaps he is a glib-tongued gentleman, and assures me that the proceedings will commence at once. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
` Unfortunately, it´s a prime tourist spot and is home to glib-tongued hustlers and would-be guides pursuing tourists. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Page 418 him a "glib-tongued scoundrel," and saying that he is running out against the institutions and people of America. From Wordnik.com. [My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman] Reference
He helped her down to it, and she was in mortal terror, as such glib-tongued women generally are when there is the least danger. From Wordnik.com. [Algonquin Legends of New England] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [David Malcolm] Reference
I guarded her from the lot of them, and then a glib-tongued scoundrel comes along, and pooh! all my years of devotion go for nothing. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Affair at Styles] Reference
Three are injurious: friendship with a man of spurious airs, friendship with the insinuatingly soft, and friendship with the glib-tongued. From Wordnik.com. [History of Education] Reference
Friendship with the man of specious airs, friendship with the insinuatingly soft, friendship with the glib-tongued, -- these are injurious. From Wordnik.com. [Pearls of Thought] Reference
Well, a glib-tongued parson, a fellow by the name of Belcher, got round the widow -- she was a desperate fool -- and, by Jove! made her marry him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
I noticed that she kept her head straight, and was not nearly so glib-tongued and birdlike before mother and Sally as she had been at the schoolhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
Fauchet approves himself a glib-tongued, strong-lunged, whole-hearted human individual: much flowing matter there is, and really of the better sort, about Right. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Ten steps would have taken Hurree into the creaking gloom utterly beyond their reach -- to the shelter and food of the nearest village, where glib-tongued doctors were scarce. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
I heard him talk three or four years ago, when he was over here, and he was about as glib-tongued a Jacobin as you 'd wish to see; but now my young man has come around handsomely. From Wordnik.com. [Oldtown Folks] Reference
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 round the island. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
He also mentions having been denounced by the "New York Express," as "a glib-tongued scoundrel," and says he is used to such epithets; and their force is lost on him; for he was reared where they were in the most common use. From Wordnik.com. [Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator.] Reference
A smooth, glib-tongued circle as the people I happen to know in New. From Wordnik.com. [The Brimming Cup] Reference
And then a glib-tongued scoundrel comes along, and pooh! all my years of devotion go for nothing. ". From Wordnik.com. ["It isn't Strychnine, is it] Reference
"blow up" his glib-tongued son because the latter had not driven a stiffer bargain with us for the hire of a carriage round the island. From Wordnik.com. [Saunterings] Reference
I guarded her from the lot of them, and then a glib-tongued scoundrel comes along, and pooh! all my years of devotion go for nothing. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Affair at Styles] Reference
The remainder is the same world-old story -- -- a good looking, glib-tongued man, plying every art known to an expert, on an innocent girl. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Harvester] Reference
Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: - these are injurious.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Analects] Reference
"Poor, glib-tongued youth, he means not what he speaks. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
It was his glib-tongued kinsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)] Reference
A "thin-faced, Roman-nosed, loquacious, glib-tongued Yankee.". From Wordnik.com. [Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective] Reference
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