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Example sentences for "fair and"

  • Tut, an the lad were noble, he had asked For horse and armour: fair and fine, forsooth!

  • But you know," she continued, "I really owed you a spite for being so ill-natured as to run away after sending me to call Mortimer to comfort and take leave of you.

  • Have you not this moment avowed that but yesterday you held in abhorrence the very plan that to-day you propose?

  • Can my mother have a wish, when I leave her with you?

  • The very same process by which he gets at the meaning of any ancient author, carries him to a fair and a faithful rendering of the scriptures of the Old and New Testament.

  • He has earned a fair and a honorable reputation.

  • The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise; And e'en the best, by fits, what they despise.

  • That is, in dealing with others, in buying or selling, in trade or business, to be fair and honest.

  • Canticle of Canticles Chapter 6 The spouse of Christ is but one: she is fair and terrible.

  • The Raja followed the Jogi's advice, and in due time his youngest wife bore him a son; a son so fair and so beautiful that there was no one on earth to match him.

  • You would do the same in our place: at the busy time of the year he speaks us fair and feeds us well, but directly the crops are gathered he begins to starve us; this year we have had nothing to eat since September.

  • When the boy grew up, they began to think about his marriage and the Raja said that he would only marry him to a bride as fair and as beautiful as himself.

  • I know she's fair and young; but is she to be had, Boy?

  • If Creatures so fair and charming as your self, had any need of Prayer, I shou'd believe by your profound Attention you were at your Evening's Devotion.

  • Now Cyllenian Hermes called forth from the halls the souls of the wooers, and he held in his hand his wand that is fair and golden, wherewith he lulls the eyes of men, of whomso he will, while others again he even wakens out of sleep.

  • Which she perceiving, while she knew herself to be fair and lusty, and felt herself to be gamesome and fit, waxed very wroth, and now and again had high words with her husband, and led but a sorry life with him at most times.

  • The wrecker's wife loosens the dress from about deceased's neck-bares that bosom once so fair and beautiful.

  • Two of his children were girls, fair and beautiful, whom the tyrant, under the pretext of bettering their condition in another colony, sold away into slavery.

  • Two children, fair and beautiful, are judged by a jury of twelve-perhaps all good and kind fathers, free and enlightened citizens of a free and happy republic-guilty of the crime of being born of a slave mother.

  • Heaven not won, Patrick bare hence my daughter through a fraud: He must restore her fourfold--daughters four, As fair and good.

  • But in his hand a princess, fair and good, A kingdom for her dowry.

  • I long to lay, in blessing, My hand upon thy brow, And pray that God may keep thee As fair and pure as now.

  • There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no wives like English wives, So fair and chaste as they be.

  • Here he lives in state and bounty, Lord of Burleigh, fair and free, Not a lord in all the county Is so great a lord as he.

  • Well skilled in business, fair and just, They gained the people's love and trust, And thus without oppression stored The swelling treasury of their lord.

  • But the God's eye with scornful glare Fell terrible on him, Dissolved the shape that was so fair And burnt up every limb.

  • I could compare it only to the fruits of the Dead sea, which are said to be fair and tempting to look upon, but yield only ashes and bitterness when tasted by the thirsty traveller**.

  • This young man was evidently disappointed in not finding all things as fair and pleasant as at home.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fair and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boiling milk; fair and; fair field; fair girl; fair idea; fair knight; fair knowledge; fair love; fair nephew; fair number; fair princess; fair sample; fair sister; fair size; fair statement; fair sweet; fair view; fair weather; fair woman; fair youth; faire water; fairly well; fairy story; fairy tale; mind being; sexual impulse