He was usually very Conversable, and would chat away by the hour together, in a fashion half shrewd, half simple, often very interesting; but now he was silent and distrait.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.
Caroline was one of the beauties of the county, clever and Conversable, "drew young men," and set the fashion to young ladies, especially when she returned from spending the season with Lady Elizabeth.
"Alice, or The Mysteries, Book II"
Edward Bulwer Lytton
She had not come away from these friends, these Conversable ripe friends, in order to spend her time in Italy chatting with three persons of another generation and defective experience; she had come away merely to avoid the treacheries of a London April.
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim