I fancy that his knack of throwing us to his shoulder by a double somersault was a recollection of his early days.

"He is president of the club; the pet of women; the admired of all the dolts and gawks who are taken with his style, his easy laughter, and his knack at getting at men's hearts.

He carved for us with his knife, with an especial knack for willow whistles.

But he had, on all occasions, a ready and peculiar knack in turning conversation from any disagreeable or unpleasant subject; and he had recourse to this expedient.

"If you wouldn't mind taking every single one of those knick-knacks off the mantelpiece and putting them away on the top shelf of the cupboard" Hilda smiled.

If there are many ornaments and knick-knacks about the room, it is certainly better for the mistress to dust these herself, as a maid-of-all-work's hands are not always in a condition to handle delicate ornaments.

When I said a word to him about his knack with things, his reply was illuminating: "I'm fifty-eight, and four out of every five nights of my life I have slept away from home on the ground.

He expected very little from this; but Tilda somehow caught the knack after a few strokes, and for half a mile it helped them greatly.

In an essay which I wrote in Weimar I called it the knack by which every genius produces his works, however various.

We turned into large sugar-works, to be cooled with sherry and ice by a hospitable manager, whose rooms were hung with good prints, and stored with good books and knick-knacks from Europe, showing the signs of a lady's hand.