conversationist

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As woman, novelist, philosopher, litterateur, and conversationist, she has marked, if not equal, claims upon our attention.

From The Women of the French Salons by Mason, Amelia Ruth Gere

But I am not afraid to place beside them an American woman, uncrowned by extravagant adulation, but fully their equal—the artist, poet, conversationist, Anne C. L. Botta.

From Memories and Anecdotes by Sanborn, Kate

Nevertheless, by his conversation, the influence of the conversationist upon mankind in general, is more decided than that of the talker by his talk:—the latter invariably talks to best purpose with his pen.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

He was expert at fence, had some skill in drawing, and was a ready and eloquent conversationist and declaimer.

From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

H——, "the Judge,"—cool-headed, warm-hearted, compassionate, irascible, liberal, witty, easy speaker and fine conversationist, with an inexhaustible fund of sense, anecdote, candor, and good heart.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various