honey-tongued

The cast includes a seasoned drunk, a honey-tongued scandalmonger, a veteran who can never quite synchronise lines and moves, and a fretful worrier anxiously seeking the motivation for every piece of comic business.

Noises Off - review 2011

The official use of GM crops was most likely a panic reaction to the real threat of starvation, governments desparately accepting a magic silver bullet sold by honey-tongued agribusiness moguls.

Cheeseburger Gothic » First Discussion thread for After America. 2010

She sounded surprised, either at the fact or that she was giving it voice: Gilbert had gotten under the skin of the honey-tongued tigress.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006

I don't disagree, I just think the honey-tongued are inspired by those with a gut full of bile.

Continuing the Conversation - Anil Dash 2006

He was courteous, honey-tongued — an adept in fascinating arts.

The Last Man 2003

Francis Meres said (in 1598), "the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous & honey-tongued Shakespeare," and "as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins: so Shakespeare among the English."

Whose Shakespeare? Bryan, Charles 1990

At thirty, however, I'd revolted: wild horses couldn't have dragged me to witness his wedding to the sharp-eyed honey-tongued Moira, his fifth choice.

Hot Money Francis, Dick 1987

It is a perpetual delight to see Filmer put down his _Daily E.press_ and with the veins bulging out from his forehead say, "That accurate and careful financier who has so immeasurably raised the status of the Chancellorship of the E.chequer"; or to hear Chalmers remark, "Sad would it be if that most honey-tongued and softhearted of politicians, dear F.E. SMITH, should have his life ended by a British bayonet."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 Various

Crac_, a native of the land of white-liars and honey-tongued gentlemen

Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various

In "Venus and Adonis", honey-tongued Shakespeare writes of a

Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from George Frederick Kunz