conversable

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The women do not seem of the same country: if they are less gay than they were, they are more informed, enough to make them very conversable.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

Mrs. Bardell let lodgings to many conversable single gentlemen, with great profit, but never brought any more actions for breach of promise of marriage.

From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles

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 Wells, Nathaniel Armstrong

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 Firth, Abraham

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