well-sounding

Good work, good life when you think how with a few well-chosen, well-sounding words, he enhanced so many peoples entertaiment experience and even made watching ads a little more bearable.

The "in a world" voiceover guy... Ann Althouse 2008

He can render a bad text into a well-sounding speech.

Sunday, June 24, 2007 As'ad 2007

Our guide having informed him of what he knew and conceived to be our object, was favoured in return with a long reply in well-sounding blank verse; at the end of every line the guide, who listened with deep attention, responded with a grunt, which soon became so ludicrous that our men burst into a loud laugh.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

At first, only Russians visited her, afterwards Frenchmen too, very agreeable, polite, and unmarried, with excellent manners and well-sounding names; they all talked a great deal and very fast, bowed easily, grimaced agreeably; their white teeth flashed under their rosy lips — and how they could smile!

A House of Gentlefolk 2003

Africa, or North and South America, are well-sounding names, and easily pronounced; but it is not until having sailed for weeks along small portions of their shores, that one is thoroughly convinced what vast spaces on our immense world these names imply.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Africa, or North and South America, are well-sounding names, and easily pronounced; but it is not until having sailed for weeks along small portions of their shores, that one is thoroughly convinced what vast spaces on our immense world these names imply.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Yet behind these well-sounding phrases there lay, one suspects, little vigorous thought.

Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

In 1581 Sir Philip Sidney praised the tragedy of _Gorboduc_, which he had seen acted by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple, because it was "full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases."

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

I should have been willing (of course for an appropriate _honorarium_) to have accepted so well-sounding an appointment myself.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 Various

Brother Pacificus, the famous poet, of whom we have before spoken, and who was then in France or in the Low Countries, should put it into well-sounding verse.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe