conversationist

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Macaulay, on all festive occasions, proved himself as elegant a conversationist as he was a writer; his tone was thoroughly English, and his pronunciation, like that of Washington Irving, was singularly correct.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

He was, withal, a skilful musician and a fascinating conversationist.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various

The ornate and well-rounded periods of the conversationist are not more in request, nowadays, than were the high-sounding sentiments of Joseph Surface to Sir Peter Teazle, when experience had shown him their emptiness.

From Modern Society by Howe, Julia Ward

As a conversationist, our visitor was fluent to a fault.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

But he was as charming, and a nice conversationist.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah