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 Dickens, Charles
I was very agreeably disappointed, when the governor informed, that he only wished to consult me about his watch, and seemed unusually pleasant and conversable.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
Well, well, who would have thought that so conversable and intelligent a creature should have come to such a melancholy end?”
From The Gorilla Hunters by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
The proprietress, charming and conversable lady, will sell you anything in the “notions” line, from a paper of pins to garter elastic.
From Pipefuls by Morley, Christopher
The Inhabitants are more genteel, more sociable, and in every respect more conversable than in the other Parts of Holland.
