Conversational in a sentence

Nor could he be regarded as emasculate; his movements merely disguised the natural vigour of a manly frame, and his conversational trifling hinted an intellectual reserve, a latent power of mind, obvious enough in the lines of his countenance.

He stopped and looked at the boy and the dog, and they looked at him, Moses ready to be suspicious, and Tim to be conversational if required.

But watchfully silent he awaited his enemy's conversational attack.

Politely bowed out by the stern, lonely old man, Major Hardwicke departed, his conversational guns spiked with the deft compliments, as the mighty clatter of the returning General filled the courtyard of the Marble House.

It made Mrs. Morris nervous, drained her mind's treasury, and sent her conversational powers borrowing and begging; Isabel it awed; Arthur it tantalized; to Godfrey it was an appetizing drollery; but to Ruth it was dearer and clearer than all spoken eloquence.

She shook hands with him in silence, and then for a moment struggled to find a conversational opening which shouldn't plunge her into deeper distress.

Through the open door he could see in the parlor Mrs. Boyd's rocking chair, in which she had traveled so many conversational miles.

They sat for some time thinking, for nobody seemed disposed to talk, even the carpenter, the most conversational of the trio, seeming to prefer the society of the piece of dirty-looking black tobacco which he kept within his teeth; but the silence became so irksome, for somehow the firing seemed to have driven every wild creature to a distance, that Fitz broke it at last. "I don't know when I felt so nervous," he whispered.

Galletly plunged undauntedly into the conversational gap.

Finding, in the afternoon, that the coupe had discharged two people, and had only one passenger inside-a monstrous ugly Tuscan, with a great purple moustache, of which no man could see the ends when he had his hat on-I took advantage of its better accommodation, and in company with this gentleman (who was very conversational and good-humoured) travelled on, until nearly eleven o'clock at night, when the driver reported that he couldn't think of going any farther, and we accordingly made a halt at a place called Stradella.

The night was so still that Sterry plainly heard the words of the men when talking to each other in an ordinary conversational tone.

It warmed his heart, cooled his temper, and made him not only conversational, but expansive.

Ronny said, dazed at the conversational barrage, “Old Man?

Others, he knew, liked conversation; and to those he introduced the subject of food almost as a sub-motive. Lord Emsworth, having examined the bill of fare with a mild curiosity, laid it down and became conversational.

Besides the regular monthly meetings, the Society is organizing courses in conversational Hebrew, Bible Study, and Zionism-the first to meet weekly, the others on alternate weeks.

With the woman from the _loge_, indeed, he could have talked at large, had she been conversational instead of rude.

A lord of her acquaintance, who still hoped to make her his lady, took her into dinner, and called upon all her powers of wit and repartee to meet his conversational tactics during the meal.

He pressed a little closer to the fence and urged friendliness with a conversational whinny.

So I am risking the displeasure of these good Sisters just to test your conversational powers, Mr. Glenarm.

Her conversational attainments did not run high.