Use fair in a sentence
Sentences starting with fair
- Fair knight, said they, that were we loath to do; for as for Sir Kay we chased him hither, and had overcome him had ye not been; therefore, to yield us unto him it were no reason. [5]
- Fair knight, then they said, in saving our lives we will do as thou commandest us. [5]
- Fair damsels, he said, my name is Sir Launcelot du Lake. [5]
- Fair play all round! [5]
- Fair flowers of never dreamed of splendor and beauty blossomed in the heart of the weeping woman, and when at length her tears ceased, there was a great silence, but also a great glory within her and around her. [10]
- Fair golden hair, interwoven with little silver chains and gold pieces, welled out almost too abundantly from beneath her tiara, and was smoothed over her white temples. [10]
Sentences ending with fair
- And then came your party, and Glencoe, and that curious incident at the Fair. [9]
- Well, how do you get along, as a rule--pretty fair? [5]
- And then he won't fight fair. [9]
- Day after to-morrow will be Ascension Day, when the bells will ring for the great fair. [10]
- Let me have what you can to go to the fair. [2]
- But what shall we say of Mr. Cluyme, and of a few others whose wealth alone enabled them to be Directors of the Fair? [9]
- More likely she was only making a common friendly visit, though Hamor says she went to trade at an Indian fair. [4]
- Life to him was one long possible Donnybrook Fair. [11]
- I was shocked to note gentlemen whom I had met in society, with the show of decorum about them, loosed now from all restraint, and swaggering like woodsmen at a fair. [11]
- Nothing was yet to be seen of the various musicians, jugglers, fire-eaters, serpent-charmers, and conjurers, who in the evening displayed their skill in this part of the town, which at all times had the aspect of a never ceasing fair. [10]
Short sentences using fair
- How fair she was! [10]
- How fair it was! [10]
- But the Fair, the Fair! [9]
- Signs are looking pretty fair. [7]
- Yes, that is pretty fair. [5]
- Is this fair, Paula? [10]
- That's fair, isn't it? [9]
- Is the bargain fair? [11]
- This was not fair. [9]
- Pretty fair joke--pretty fair. [5]
Sentences containing fair two or more times
- Aw'm dealin' fair wi' you that never dealt fair by no man. [11]
- So they rode till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. [5]
- You pointed out that it would be an advantage to Grenoble to revive the county fair, and you asked me to subscribe five thousand dollars to the Fair Association. [9]
- One could infer that he had thought this thing all out and chosen this way of making all things fair and right because it was sufficiently fair and considerably wiser than the renunciation-scheme which he had brought with him from England. [5]
- After this examination she shook her head and muttered some words, which as nearly as I could get them would be in English like these: Fair lady cast a spell on thee, Fair lady's hand shall set thee free. [6]
- They had had no fair and proper leadership--at least leaders with a fair and proper chance. [5]
- This fair, which is just concluded, is a true Folks-Fest, a season especially for the Bavarian people, an agricultural fair and cattle show, but a time of general jollity and amusement as well. [4]
- And then the fair one must be a fair one indeed. [9]
- The wind was fair for her; but it was as fair for the brig, able to outsail her twice over. [11]
- It was a fair fight, and he's the best man in the state in a fair fight. [9]
More example sentences with the word fair in them
- The lieutenancy is yours, fair lord. [5]
- We gave you your option, to scale down on a fair estimate of the earnings of the short line (the A. and B. [4]
- Take them into your keeping, man; and tomorrow morning we will see who has left this suspicious offering in our vestibule.--You were the first to reach the spot, fair Paula. [10]
- I say to you that while I live all I am is yours, fair and foul, good and bad. [11]
- Well, just as you say, but I wished to be fair and liberal there's nothing mean about me. [5]
- I have disturbed you in grave studies no doubt; what is the book you are rolling up, fair Zoe? [10]
- Well, if he wouldn't consent, but should even strenuously protest and say he wouldn't serve if elected, isn't it still wise and fair to nominate him and vote for him? [5]
- And yet it would not be fair in me not to admit that the sarcasms are deserved. [5]
- The fair Peri would look dark by your side. [10]
- Of Cadmus he would fair have sung, Of Atreus and his line; But all the jocund echoes rung With songs of love and wine. [6]
- How our cheeks would burn when many a time we spoke of the love which was the bond between Gotz and his fair Gertrude. [10]
- These were the words I was maundering with this noble voice of mine: "'The news I bring, fair Lady, Will make your tears run down Put off your rose-red dress so fine And doff your satin gown! [11]
- Twain if published without his privity, we judged it but fair to submit them to him and give him an opportunity to defend himself. [5]
- Mr Slum then withdrew to alter the acrostic, after taking a most affectionate leave of his patroness, and promising to return, as soon as he possibly could, with a fair copy for the printer. [12]
- The fair prospects with which Emerson began his life as a settled minister were too soon darkened. [6]
- You landed 'em with the protest fair and easy. [11]
- Contrasting its failure with its high pretensions, it is fair to call it an imposition; whether an expressly fraudulent contrivance or not, some might be ready to question. [6]
- Then she added with a fair unconcern, "do you happen to know where Mr. Allen is this morning? [9]
- In such regions wise and careful work was necessary, for the English rule had been fair and kindly; and men who have been ruled in that way are not always anxious for a change. [5]
- With a fair wind they might, with all canvas set--mainsail, foresail, jib, and fore-topsail--make Rozel Bay within two hours and a quarter. [11]
- But see, the wind blows fair, and in my heart I have no fear of the end. [11]
- Perhaps he will win through, by himself, but is it fair to have him run the risk? [11]
- Come here, I will kiss this great scar, on your neck, my brave, faithful fellow, and some day a fair one will follow my example. [10]
- I suppose you will get a prize, because you have created the most prodigious and in all ways most wonderful Fair the planet has ever seen. [5]
- The first son, who was but a year older, and was as dark as he was fair, had inherited--had seized--all his father's wealth. [11]
- Even the mortal who succumbs in a fair fight ought not to be enraged against the victor. [10]
- The young fellow who proposed this title was perhaps a fair sample of the kind of stuff we were made of. [5]
- But few people who are not on the inside, so to speak, grasp the fact that big corporations, like the Railroad, are looked upon as fair game for every kind of parasite. [9]
- In that small white house must the fair pale Selene be sleeping, but though he rowed hither and thither, backwards and forwards, he could not succeed in discovering the window of which Pollux had spoken. [10]
- The vast mob which thronged the wide space beyond the shouting circle just round us was much like that of any other fair, so far as I could see from my royal perch. [6]
- The interest with which the fair daughter of his companion-in-arms watched his deeds and his destiny, the modest yet ardent devotion afterwards displayed by the much sought-after young widow, who coldly repelled all other suitors, had been a delight to him in times of peace. [10]
- But the show which most delighted the bystanders was the procession of masks, wherein, indeed, there were many things pleasant and fair to behold. [10]
- All is fair where all is foul, M. [11]
- Which was this: whenever one of these came to die, then beyond the vague and formless images drifting through his darkening mind rose soft and rich and fair a vision of the Tree--if all was well with his soul. [5]
- They was fair when I put it to them that you'd mebbe want to do that. [11]
- But shall Charmian--who, when her heart throbbed still more warmly and life lay fair before her, laid her first love upon the altar of sacrifice for her royal playfellow--abandon Cleopatra in misfortune from mere selfish scruples? [10]
- Now take the wheel and finish the watch; and next time play fair, and you won't have to work your passage. [5]
- I know too what you lack most since you heard the fair words of the senator's son. [10]
- In the fair west wind I know the Mistress herself, full of hope, and always the first one to discover a bit of blue in a cloudy sky. [4]
- Some day the west will be numerically strong enough to move the seat of government; her past attempts are a fair warning that when the day comes she will do it. [5]
- And how fair were the visions that rose before her young fancy as she broke off one piece after another and hastily eat them after slightly moistening them with the fresh oil. [10]
- But though some went many stayed, camping among the booths, since the Fair was for tomorrow and for other to-morrows after. [11]
- She was looking well now, and most fair and beautiful after her fortnight's rest from wordy persecution. [5]
- The orders went well enough for groceries and such things at a fair discount, and the work danced along gaily for a time. [5]
- Confound him, he wearied me with arguments to show that in anything like a fair market he would have fetched twenty-five dollars, sure--a thing which was plainly nonsense, and full or the baldest conceit; I wasn't worth it myself. [5]
- Both were masterly weapons, an armament so complete that it controlled the face and eyes and outward man into a fair semblance of honesty. [11]
- The colonel had watched the scene in silence; now, however, he drew his favourite to him, kissed him, and caressed his fair curls. [10]
- And when time was, his host brought him into a fair garret over the gate to his bed. [5]
- Yea, and I was too full of care for the happiness of my brother and of my friend to be ready to think of my own; so I could only speak him fair, but say him nay. [10]
- And how fair was the forlorn bride in these days of waiting and of weary unsatisfied longing! [10]
- His fair skin was tanned by the weather, and he wore his own wavy hair powdered, as was just become the fashion, and tied with a ribbon behind. [9]
- He thought it was summer, and he was playing, all alone, in the fair meadow called Goodman's Fields, when a dwarf only a foot high, with long red whiskers and a humped back, appeared to him suddenly and said, "Dig by that stump. [5]
- The soft-hearted tyrant was really sorry for the faithful old servant he had bought a generation since for the home to which he had brought his fair young wife, and he began to speak kindly to her, as he had previously done to the birds. [10]
- Mr. George Percy was ravished at the sight of the fair meadows and goodly tall trees. [4]
- Barbara understood what was passing in his mind, and whispered compassionately to the doctor and her sister-in-law: "All his fair money to help the young lady. [10]
- I knew she was over-size, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. [7]
- When our repast was over, and I had drunk a glass of wine with the proprietor, I offered to pay him, tendering what I knew was a fair price in this region. [4]
- Slocum" (no, it was one "Carl Byng," I perceive) "Carl Byng" for Mark Twain, and that it was the former who wrote the plagiarism entitled "Three Aces," I think that would do a fair justice without any unseemly display. [5]
- The fourth generation was of fair average endowment. [3]
- But then, it was objected, that he was an objectless bear--a bear that meant nothing in particular, signified nothing,--simply stood there snarling over his shoulder at nothing--and was painfully and manifestly a boorish and ill-natured intruder upon the fair page. [5]
- Either way it was not what was fair and just; yet I had to bear and suffer, not you. [11]
- The Brinsmade place was not far from the Fair Grounds,--now a receiving camp for the crude but eager regiments of the Northern states. [9]
- Master Ulman Pernhart was married in a right sober fashion to fair Mistress Giovanna, and I remember to this day seeing them wed in Saint Laurence's Church. [10]
- The question was, Was it a fair emanation of the people? [7]
- That fair dream was in my mind when Jean met me at the steamer last Monday; it was in my mind when she received me at the door last Tuesday evening. [5]
- Her fair skin was fairer than ever, but it was delicately faded, giving her a look of pensiveness, while yet there was that in her carriage and at her mouth which suggested strength and will and new forces at work in her. [11]
- Her fair hair was drawn plainly and smoothly, over her temples, and the slender, slightly stooping figure, resembled a young tree, which the storm has bowed and deprived of strength and will to raise itself. [10]
- With the group was a lieutenant, buttoned close in his gray coat,--one button gone, perhaps to make a breastpin for some fair traitorous bosom. [6]
- But, as it was a fair presumption that most colonial gentlemen made a visit home at least once in their lives, I did not allow the dust to get into my eyes. [9]
- The Theresien Wiese was a city of Vanity Fair for two weeks, every day crowded with a motley throng. [4]
- In truth, she was a being transformed, and more wondrous fair than ever. [9]
- The cavaliers, bowing very low, suddenly stepped back from the fair dames, and the ladies curtsied to the floor. [10]
- Jack was a very good shot and a fair rider, and in the climate of England he might have taken first-rate rank in athletics. [4]
- It all seems very fair, but we must not forget that this is a mortal world, and that it is liable to various accidents. [4]
- Three of the verses I give here: "The 'Lovely Jane' went sailing down To anchor at the Spicy Isles; And the wind was fair as ever was blown, For the matter of a thousand miles. [11]
- Whenever he ordered up the danger-signals along the coast there was a week's dead calm, sure, and every time he prophesied fair weather it rained brickbats. [5]
- He was himself unusually fair, and had withstood the climate in a wonderful manner. [1]
- He was quiet, unobtrusive, and only a fair scholar according to the standard of the College authorities. [6]
- Another letter to Twichell of this time affords a fair example. [5]
- I writ him twice to the capital, and give him fair warning afore he went. [9]
- He says our tunnel is in 52 feet, and a small stream of water has been struck, which bids fair to become a "big thing" by the time the ledge is reached--sufficient to supply a mill. [5]
- This time you trample under foot the fair name of an honourable man. [10]
- Striking as this train may unfold itself in her character, and as pre-eminent as it may stand among the fair display of her other qualities, yet there is another, which struggles into existence, and adds an additional luster to what she already possesses. [5]
- The sight nearly took his breath away!--He stood gazing at the fair young face like one transfixed; then presently ejaculated-- "Lo, the Lord of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows on his throne! [5]
- At $10 per ton, or $100 per car, which would be a fair price for the distance by rail, the freight bill would amount to $180,000, or $162,000 more by rail than by river. [5]
- She had been told often enough that she was fair to look upon. [6]
- Is it fair to your honour? [11]
- It is fair to warn the tailor. [11]
- In the answer to this question some among you may find a key that shall unlock the gate opening on that fair field of the future of which all dream but which not all will ever reach. [3]
- I am fair to the poets,--don't you agree that I am? [6]
- He was delegate to the Chicago Fair Congress of Religions. [5]
- This is just to the author, fair to the public, and, above all, valuable to the intellectual sanity of the critic himself. [4]
- It's only fair to tell you that. [9]
- It bid fair to take as long to get rid of the remains of the great party as it had taken to make ready for it. [6]
- It is fair to take a man prisoner. [6]
- Who entreated you to spare her fair fame? [10]
- I should like to see the mahn that'll take off that seddle 'n' bridle, excep' the one th't hez a fair right to the whole concern! [6]
- It is fair to say of Scotty, however, in passing, that he had a warm heart, and a strong love for his friends, and never entered into a quarrel when he could reasonably keep out of it. [5]
- I am going to purge myself of the last vestiges of artificiality and pretence, and then start fair on your own honest level and be worthy mate to you thenceforth. [5]
- It is fair to presume that in thirty centuries history will not get done admiring these men who attempted what the world regarded as impossible and achieved it. [5]
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