Boswell, however, was, as his proposer said, a thoroughly "clubable" man, and once a member, his good humour secured his popularity. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Johnson] Reference
Except in years he was not young; he could not manage to be "clubable"; he was serious and awkward at a supper party; he was altogether without the effervescence which is necessary in order to avoid flatness. From Wordnik.com. [Michael] Reference
In the case of Mars, they are probably very numerous; and, apart from the evidence of canals, the prevalent assumption that there are intelligent beings in that planet, seems to rest less upon probability than on a curiously imaginative extension of the gregarious sentiment, the chilly discomfort of mankind at the thought of being alone in the universe, and a hope that there may be conversable and 'clubable' souls nearer than the Dog-star. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
"clubable" man, and the tavern chair as the throne of human felicity, it should be remembered that there were no gentlemen's clubs in London in those days, hence groups of famous men met at the taverns. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
All the opinions it meets with are clubable, and on good terms with one another. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
Above for your enjoyment, via Ridiculous Politics, is the famous Calamity Clegg dossier from clubable Buff Huhne. From Wordnik.com. [Libdemologists: Hoaxer Leech Finally Makes His Mind Up] Reference
More uncanny-looking eyes I had never encountered, -- their possessor could not be, in any sense of the word, a clubable person. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
During the last forty years Mr. CARR, eminently a clubable man, has made the acquaintance and enjoyed the friendship of a galaxy of painters, authors and actors. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914] Reference
Can you fancy anything less clubable than a set of men like this?. From Wordnik.com. [Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General] Reference
This result shows that she is a clubable woman, for it is emphatically the club spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly]
Bond was not a clubable man, but ... 'followed by a mention of Bond's club-membership IIRC (Garrick???). From Wordnik.com. [CommanderBond.net] Reference
Dr. Holmes once said to her, "Mrs. Howe, I consider you eminently clubable"; and he added that he himself was not. From Wordnik.com. [Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910] Reference
I do not suspect that we English are pre-eminent for social gifts; and yet we are the only nation that furnishes clubable men. From Wordnik.com. [Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General] Reference
Boswell, however, was, as his proposer said, a thoroughly “clubable” man, and once a member, his good humour secured his popularity. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Johnson]
If asked to state the merits of the candidate, he summed them up in an indefinite but comprehensive word of his own coining; he was clubable. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith]
I presume that two species of animals do not consider one another companionable, or clubable, unless their behaviour and their persons are reciprocally agreeable. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development] Reference
Somewhat to the jeopardy of the academic standard that my father expected me to sustain, our rooms became a rendezvous for many clubable souls whose maudlin, midnight attempts at harmony often set the cocks crowing. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Some people might be too proud to look forward to the friendship of a flagellator, but in those days we could not pick and choose our chums; Barton might not be clubable, but he might be useful, and the social ladder requires a first step. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
“clubable” man, yet he enjoyed the meetings in his still way, or he would never have come from Concord so regularly to attend them. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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