Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fond of sweets; dainty.
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Examples
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But should all their villainy be once displayed in its true colours and exposed to the people, there never was, is, nor will be any spokesman so sweet-mouthed, whose fine colloguing tongue could save
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But should all their villainy be once displayed in its true colours and exposed to the people, there never was, is, nor will be any spokesman so sweet-mouthed, whose fine colloguing tongue could save
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then instead of the singing of the brook, the carol of the nightingale, and the humming of the sweet-mouthed bees, were heard the rifle's sharp crack and the rattling of the musketry; the brook ran red with the blood of the slain; and the Russians, like the Roman legions cut off in the woods of the Germans, were left with none to bury them.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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I taught them how to fashion the tales of old into rich melodious songs, and with music and sweet-mouthed eloquence to move the minds of their fellow-men.
The Story of Siegfried James Baldwin 1883
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And thought of the mirth of to-morrow and the sweet-mouthed Hunding maid
The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865
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It was Bragi had made them sweet-mouthed, and I was the wandering scald;
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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At the sound of his sweet-mouthed wisdom, and his body shapen fair.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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But should all their villainy be once displayed in its true colours and exposed to the people, there never was, is, nor will be any spokesman so sweet-mouthed, whose fine colloguing tongue could save 'em; nor any law so rigorous and draconic that could punish 'em as they deserve; nor yet any magistrate so powerful as to hinder their being burnt alive in their coneyburrows without mercy.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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“There’s no need for you to be so sweet-mouthed and honey-tongued with me.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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"There's no need for you to be so sweet-mouthed and honey-tongued with me.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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