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No ideas such as the foregoing no misgivings suggested by them probably, troubled the self-complacency of most of these clever sculptors. Marble, in their view, had no such sanctity as we impute to it. Such men, on the strength of some small knack in handling clay, which might have been fitly employed in making wax-work, are bold to call themselves sculptors.
They refuse to stay there, but they can't get away. I've cabled The Review, overdrawing my salary scandalously, and Dan is eager to help, but the worst of it is neither of those women knows how to make a living. Natalie wants to work, but the extent of her knowledge is the knack of frosting a layer cake, and her mother never even sewed on a button in all her life.
Princess Sultanam, however, to whom in her seclusion winter and summer were much alike, grew fond of the little lad, and never ceased to urge on her husband the wisdom of so treating Prince Akbar, that should King Humâyon by good luck and he had a knack of being lucky find himself again with an army at his back, his hands would be tied from revenge on the Court at Kâbul.
"I can crowd in with you?" "Okay?" "Okay." "Fine, I'll see that you're signed out. Ever walk on crutches before?" "I never walked on crutches." "Nothing much to it. You'll get the knack." Frank left the bed and headed toward the office, asking himself as he went, Why in hell did I do that? Then he found the reason or at least a reason that would suffice.
I wasn't doubting it," said my uncle; "only it's just occurred to me that as you understand the knack of these things, perhaps you'd like to come in and try your hand on the dog? We can give you a room quite to yourselves; and I'll undertake that nobody comes near to interfere with you.
We have to seem to be infallible to secure any attention at all, you see; and we soon learn the knack of it." The clergyman, as if unconsciously, drew back a little farther into the shadow of the heavy draperies veiling the nook in which they stood.
"Piff is paff, and paff is puff!" laughed Ulrich. "When I snap the twigs, you always hear them say 'knack, knack, and 'knack' is a word too. The juggler Caspar's magpie, can say twenty." "But father said so," replied Ruth, arranging the dry sticks. "He toils hard, but not for gold and gain, to find the right words.
He remained just average-plus to the end, with something more than a knack at things mechanical; a good deal of grease beneath his nails; and, generally, a smudge under one eye or a swipe of black across a cheek that gave him a misleadingly sinister and piratical look.
And he had been somewhat out of practice he had regretted that; he was fearful of losing the art, the knack. About the fat paunch of the merchant was a silver-studded belt. Hunsa eyed this speculatively.
This scene, which is very short, is a carnival of bustle and gaiety, and is a brilliant example of Puccini's happy knack of handling concerted music. The next scene is a series of quarrels and reconciliations between the two pairs of lovers, while in the last act Mimi, who has deserted Rodolphe, comes back to see him once more before she dies, and breathes her last on the little bed in the attic.
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