conversable

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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

Now Josiah, good, conversable man, knows about geography and the country round.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various

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

To tea at Mrs. Hazeltine's where met William Allen Butler, author of 'Nothing to Wear'—a bright-eyed, conversable man.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

Just then, perhaps, Nettie was not a very conversable companion.

From The Doctor's Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)