What does honey-tongued mean?
Honey-tongued means Sweet-speaking; persuasive; seductive..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Sweet-speaking; persuasive; seductive..
This is the flower that smiles on every one, To show his teeth as white as whale’s bone; And consciences, that will not die in debt, Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet.
In Iulius Cæſars time […] the famous hony-tong’d Orator Cicero floriſhed; who, amongſt many other his eloquent Orations, writ certaine yet extant […]
As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to liue in Pythagorus: so the sweete wittie soule of Ouid liues in mellifluous and hony-tongued Shakespeare, witnesse his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &c.
Among his other advantages, Lord Raymond was supremely handsome; every one admired him; of women he was the idol. He was courteous, honey-tongued—an adept in fascinating arts.
He was a grey-head with large spectacles and a wide mouth which combined to give him a froglike expression, but nothing could be less froglike than his voice. He was honey-tongued. Every verse he read turned into music on his lips: something midway between speech and song.
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Honey-tongued means Sweet-speaking; persuasive; seductive..
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This is the flower that smiles on every one, To show his teeth as white as whale’s bone; And consciences, that will not die in debt, Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet.
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