conversable

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My niece, a charming and interesting young person and most conversable, stays, I hope, through the greater part of September, and I even curse that necessary limit—when she returns to America....

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry

He was the pleasantest and most conversable member of the diplomatic corps while I was there; a man of good fancy, acuteness, irony, cunning, and egoism.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

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)

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

She is not remarkably conversable, certainly," said Rosalind; "but I suspect that she has very bad health.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs