conversable
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I thought that Miss Brandon, having broken the ice, was henceforth to be a conversable young lady.
From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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 Horace Walpole
Now Josiah, good, conversable man, knows about geography and the country round.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
Well, well, who would have thought that so conversable and intelligent a creature should have come to such a melancholy end?”
From The Gorilla Hunters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
I have met with two or three well-informed men of the world, and some lively conversable women; but none of either sex that at all reminded me of the well-educated men and women of Europe.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham