conversable

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All this is your personal gift: it is no necessary part of the master's equipment to be so gracefully conversable.

From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Morley, Christopher

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

This done, he rejoined Marlow and Emily, and to all appearance was more cheerful and conversable than he had been for many a previous day.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

"You found the Arabs conversable and ready at the cup, Mr. Monday?" observed the captain, lighting a cigar, which with him was a never-failing sign for a gossip.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by Cooper, James Fenimore

The proprietress, charming and conversable lady, will sell you anything in the “notions” line, from a paper of pins to garter elastic.

From Pipefuls by Morley, Christopher