Meanings of fair scholar in English

The Colonel was exceedingly accomplished, a very fair scholar, knew most modern languages.

We shall make a fair scholar of you, after all.

He made good use of this opportunity, and indeed became a fair scholar and theologian.

We thought him a fair scholar but nothing extraordinary.

He was quiet, unobtrusive, and only a fair scholar according to the standard of the College authorities.

He had been popular, not distinguished at anything- afairathlete, a fair scholar, arousing no jealousies or enmities.

The Squire on his side had observed with approval that the Rector was a fair scholar, and a bad beggar.

But while he was a consummate warrior, a well-trained guardian, and a fair scholar, his skills didn't extend to time-stopping.

At the high school he was a fair scholar, but without enthusiasm, being more interested in Border stories than in the text-books.

He was a fair scholar, but his mind was constantly on the subject of what to wear and how to wear it.

The boy is, the chaplain tells me, quick-witted, and a fair scholar for his years, and I can find good schooling for him.

Parson Dale, though a very fair scholar, had neither the deep theology nor the archaeological learning that distinguish the rising generation of the clergy.

"Yet she may make a very fair scholar."

"That is," called out the wife, "if thou wilt make a fair scholar of little Will.