(God bless her little ever-dancing feet, whatever size they may be now!) He must be very fond of her, for he gives her one day his chiefest treasure, to wit, a huge pocket-knife with four rusty blades and a corkscrew, which latter has a
knack of working itself out in some mysterious manner and sticking into its owner's leg.
"I don't quite see it yet, but I have firm faith that I shall in time, and consider my calling costume finished," said Fanny, getting more and more interested as she saw her condemned wardrobe coming out fresh again under Polly's magic
knack.
I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better -- the
knack 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 wonderful
knack of rallying and playing with that passion, which is a mighty serious thing in woods and groves an hundred miles distant from London.
These things are not to be learnt; they depend upon a
knack that comes, I suppose," added she, smiling, "with one's mother's blood.
From his earliest boyhood he had exhibited a knack--for it would be too proud a word to call it genius--a
knack, therefore, for the imitation of the human figure in whatever material came most readily to hand.
She says I have quite a
knack. I'm through with the farm.
And he had a good
knack at getting in the complimentary thing here and there about a knight that was likely to advertise -- no, I mean a knight that had influence; and he also had a neat gift of exaggeration, for in his time he had kept door for a pious hermit who lived in a sty and worked miracles.
