He may, among the drunkards, be a hearty fellow, and, among sober handicraftsmen, a free-spoken gentleman; but he must have some better distinction, before he is a patriot.

The years rolled away from her, and she was once more the Dahlia Wooster of the old yoicks-and-tantivy daysthe emotional, free-speaking girl who had so often risen in her stirrups to yell derogatory personalities at people who were heading hounds.

With people whom he trusted he was unusually frank and free-spoken.

The only man in Rome who did not tremble under the rod with which this hard old monk ruled his people and the Church was the free-spoken marble jester.

She was a free-spoken woman as a rule, and it was terrible to have to sit still and waste all the good things she could have said to her in favour of unsatisfying pin-pricks.

She was a free-spoken woman as a rule, and it was terrible to have to sit still and waste all the good things she could have said to her in favour of unsatisfying pin-pricks.

As the leader of a loose-living, hard drinking set, such as was to be found in every parish, he was a determined and free-spoken enemy of the kirk, whose tyranny he several times encountered.

This ready-witted lady, who liked to be in the secret about everything, soon observed, in a few conversational feelers which she threw out, that Edward was very fluent and free-spoken in praise of Ottilie.

We see too many brave men, free-spoken men, affectionate men, who come to shame and ruin.

She was honestly old-fashioned and never took quite kindly to the khaki-breeched free-spoken young women of the subsidiary war services, had a hatred of muddle and was a little severe on men, though acknowledging that "young men are the kindest members of the human race."

An old free-speaking companion of his, well known at Lincoln's Inn, would sometimes say to me, 'I met the great law lion this morning going to Westminster; but he was so busily reading in the coach what his provider had supplied him with, that he took no notice of me.'

He had yielded to the free-spoken representations of Walter de Manny and to the soft entreaties of his royal wife.

Its Rabelaisian license of incident and allusion was calculated to offend the proprietiesthe provincial proprieties especiallyeven in that free-spoken age; and there was that in the book, moreover, which a provincial society may be counted on to abominate, with a keener if less disinterested abhorrence than any sins against decency.

Some of 'em was free-spoken women, and 'e couldn't sleep for thinking of the 'arm they might do 'im.

One day his free-spoken aunt was visiting with them, and, as usual, disagreeing with Keith's mother, who evidently felt one of her dark spells approaching.

" "Ay, a monstrous free-spoken lady always.

"What doth the jealous-pated slayer of his wife and unborn child within the reach of free-spoken voices, and mayhap of well-directed blades?