We like plain dealings and straightforward transactions in America.

Troth, sir," said Alan, "I ask for nothing but plain dealing.

Come, come, says Mr Vincent, plain dealing.

Like most programmers, Wiz preferred straight talk and plain dealing.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.

No artifice, no breach of truth and plain dealing, - not so much as secret ballot, is suffered in the island.

This is a most weighty consideration: But the times require plain dealing.

Not so well as plain dealing, which will not cost a man a doit.

These portray the crab as honest and plain dealing, drawing the moral that one should be straightforward in behaviour and beware of friendship with those who are not.

When not depressed he was an amusing companion, "very merry, facete, and juvenile," and a person of "great honesty, plain dealing, and charity."