When she discovered that the Crevequers knew nothing, she did not follow the subject; she gently fell again into her non-conversational attitude, which seemed almost a little abstracted.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
"After all," said Rawlins, "the fashion of the day is changed in other respects as well as in conversational excellence.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
It struck her that the fact that she had not made the inquiry earlier said a good deal for her companion's conversational powers.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss