knack

• It took me years and years to get the knack, and more years than that to help common folk understand what I was doing. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
• Before I had finished the story I had got the knack, and if I were ever to write another I have no doubt that I could manage the conversation fairly well. —  Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
• Thus they practiced and fell, tried again and again, until the knack was accomplished and they could get along very nicely In the meantime diligent preparations were being made indoors for this excursion to the home of the beavers. —  Winter Adventures of Three Boys
• 'I have a knack--of course for Jacobins and Bonapartists only--when I thrust en quarte_, to draw out the sword by an imperceptible movement of the hand, en tierce_, or vice versâ_, according to circumstances; and thus the blade turns in the wound--_and that kills_; for the lung is injured, and mortification is sure to follow On returning to my hotel, where L---- also was staying, I met the physician, who had just visited him. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852
• For this, he gave her in return fresh spring-flowers, or, by way of change, a nettle (which was always thrown violently into a corner), and for the rest attentively remarked the occurrences in the dairy, and Susanna's movements, whilst she poured the milk out of the pails through a sieve into the pans, and arranged them on their shelves, whereby it happened that he would forget himself in the following monologue See, that one may call a knack! —  Strife and Peace

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