I was so uncomfortably conscious that Mr. Benyon did not look a clubbable kind of man that I faltered in my speech.
"Amusement Only"
Richard Marsh
He was a clubbable man, and he drew about him at the tavern a group of the most distinguished intellects of the time, Edmund Burke, the orator and statesman, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, the portrait painter, and David Garrick, the great actor, who had been a pupil in Johnson's school, near Lichfield.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
You have all been considering what qualities are most necessary in family life and what qualities are most to be deprecated-you have, in short, been considering Dr. Johnson's question as to what makes "a clubbable person."
"Stray Thoughts for Girls"
Lucy H. M. Soulsby