conversable
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He was the pleasantest and most conversable member of the diplomatic corps while I was there; a man of good fancy, acuteness, irony, cunning, and egoism.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
If in a conversable humour she will do more.
From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells
Gurney is not so conversable, but has every appearance of being pre-eminently happy.
From Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography by Edward N. Hoare
He was a clever and conversable man, well lettered, a great discourser, and full of a diversity of experience....
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational as well as a more conversable animal than an infant of a day, a week, or even a month old.
From Voices for the Speechless by Abraham Firth
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