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They were intelligent and conversible, and we decided the future of France over hot wine, until the state of the clock frightened us to rest.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew

He held forth on poetry, painting, politics, and metaphysics, and with a great deal of eloquence; he is more conversible and with a greater flow of animal spirits than Southey.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry

He. is a young man of parts, and his travels have made him very conversible.

From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)

And the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

He was at that age of a conversible temper, and insatiably curious in the aspects of life; and he spent much of his time scraping acquaintance with all classes of man- and woman-kind.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis