The "bright" American is, to my thinking, the best talker in the world-certainly the best talker in the English language.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
She was a good fluent talker; moreover, she studied her listener, and finding that my interest in her own interminable story was becoming exhausted she sought for other subjects, chiefly the strange events in the lives of men and women who had lived in the village and who had long been turned to dust.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
"I am not a great talker, but I am very careful whom I converse with," said Mrs. Kingdom, in her most stately manner.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs