conversable
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Bardell let lodgings to many conversable single gentlemen, with great profit, but never brought any more actions for breach of promise of marriage.
From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
This done, he rejoined Marlow and Emily, and to all appearance was more cheerful and conversable than he had been for many a previous day.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various
Now Josiah, good, conversable man, knows about geography and the country round.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
Just then, perhaps, Nettie was not a very conversable companion.
From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
“He was of a conversable temper,” so he says of himself, “and insatiably curious in the aspects of life, and spent much of his time scraping acquaintance with all classes of men and womenkind.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
