spoken-of

Updated: May 7, 2025

You cannot deny that this thing happened without asserting no less than seven blessed saints to have been unprincipled liars, and that would be a very horrible heresy " "Yet, Mother, you know as well as I do " " And thus Epimenides, another excellently spoken-of saint, slept at Athens for fifty-seven years.

James Branch Cabell - The Line of Love: Dizain des Mariages

None the less, you are an excellently spoken-of young wizard of noble condition, who have slain no doubt a reasonable number of giants and dragons, and who have certainly turned kings from folly and wickedness. For such fine rumors speed before the man who has fine deeds behind him that you do not come into my realm as a stranger: and, I repeat, things might have fallen out much worse."

James Branch Cabell - Figures of Earth