conversable

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In that sits Satan himself—a well-dressed, conversable, lively, fascinating little man—who never contradicts you, allows that you are always in the right—in fact, seems quite to adopt all your opinions.

From The Sand-Hills of Jutland by Bushby, Mrs. (Anna S.)

I thought that Miss Brandon, having broken the ice, was henceforth to be a conversable young lady.

From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

I have met with two or three well-informed men of the world, and some lively conversable women; but none of either sex that at all reminded me of the well-educated men and women of Europe.

From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Graham, Maria

“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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

This aspiration was whispered, as though its object were within conversable distance.

From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian