conversationist

• “Richard Sharpe, the "conversationist" as he was called in London, kept a regular book of entry, in which he recorded where and before whom he had uttered severally his choice sayings.”

  The Laws of Etiquette

• “It will have been perceived that Miss Fotheringay, though silent in general, and by no means brilliant as a conversationist, where poetry, literature, or the fine arts were concerned, could talk freely, and with good sense, too, in her own family circle.”

  The History of Pendennis

• “He's a conversationist who saw this devastation for himself in Indonesia.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2004

• “I find it very hard to keep focus however the guy last night was a self conversationist.”

  miss-k2 Diary Entry

• “Not only was I tired, but listening to the same pedantic metaphysical reasoning for the second time from my friend, normally a lively conversationist, bored me out of my skull.”

  An East Wind Coming

• “He is a cautious conversationist, as might be expected of one who has so deeply delved into the most cautious of all professions, but in the mind of the thoughtful reader this should add to the value of his utterances, which, as expressed in the following columns, were carefully revised by him before going into type.”

  The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe

• “A good shrugger in Italy is admired, just as a good conversationist is in England, or a good stump orator in America.”

  The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX

• “Nora was a woman to laugh and chat with; Nora was kind and gracious, and gentle too; Nora was amiable as well as witty; charming in manner, piquant in expression, inimitable at an anecdote, with never-failing resources, a first-rate lady-conversationist, if I may use so formidable a word -- in fact, a thoroughly fascinating woman; but Marion!”

  The Lady of the Ice A Novel

• “As an author, therefore, he is sententious; as a conversationist, loose and verbose; -- or the reverse of this may be true.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858

• “Macaulay, on all festive occasions, proved himself as elegant a conversationist as he was a writer; his tone was thoroughly”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

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