conversable

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The women do not seem of the same country: if they are less gay than they were, they are more informed, enough to make them very conversable.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

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

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

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

He was usually very conversable, and would chat away by the hour together, in a fashion half shrewd, half simple, often very interesting; but now he was silent and distrait.

From Not Pretty, but Precious by De Forest, J. W. (John William)