Too long did my soul sit hungry at their table: not like them have I got theknack of investigating, as theknack of nut-cracking.

He was a witty, intelligent, well-read man, rivalling Captain Jim himself in theknack of telling a good story.

By hisknack of sermonising and pious discoursing, he contrived to make a great impression on Mr.

She has the flexible face, the manageable voice, and the dramaticknack which fit a woman for character-parts and disguises on the stage.

Besides, things have aknack of going wrong at the start, especially in the matter of irritating trifles.

I don't know why he was so eager on the subject, unless it be that I occasionally borrow an umbrella and have aknack of coming out, in the middle of a game of whist, with a mild "Lor!

've got, and we 'll see what can be done," said Polly, looking as if she enjoyed the prospect, for she had a great deal of that feminine faculty which we call "knack," and much practice had increased it.

The musical sense in each of the children was of the quickest, but the elder in especial had a marvelousknack of catching and repeating.

Elinor, however little concerned in it, joined in their discourse; and Marianne, who had theknack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

He was developing a sense of humour, and found that he had aknack of saying bitter things, which caught people on the raw; he said them because they amused him, hardly realising how much they hurt, and was much offended when he found that his victims regarded him with active dislike.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better -- theknack of making people like me.

We cannot here avoid remarking, that this conjecture would have been better founded had Sophia lived ten years in the air of Grosvenor Square, where young ladies do learn a wonderfulknack of rallying and playing with that passion, which is a mighty serious thing in woods and groves an hundred miles distant from London.