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'Kostalergi; they call themselves princes. 'With all my heart. I was only going to say, as you've got a sort of knack of entanglement is there, or has there been, anything of that sort here? 'Flirtation a little of what is called "spooning" but no more. But why do you ask? 'First of all, you are an engaged man. 'All true, and I mean to keep my engagement.
His bedroom opened into mine, his dressing-room lay beyond; and that was pretty nearly all I knew, for the servants, as well as he himself, had a knack of turning me back, under some pretence, if ever they found me walking about alone, as I was inclined to do, when first I came, from a sort of curiosity to see the whole of the place of which I found myself mistress.
If she were aware of the idle figure at the upper window, she gave no sign of it. She laid her strong, long, flexible hands on the handle, saying, "So, you hold it this way. Then you swing it up, back of your head. There's a sort of knack to that. You'll soon catch it. And then, if the ground isn't very hard, you don't need to use any strength at all on the downward stroke.
"I know that tautog will leave mussels for scallop any time. And we'll have the eyes of the scallops fried for lunch. They're all ready in the cabin." The pulpy, fat bodies of the scallop a commercial waste were difficult to hang upon the short, blunt hooks; but Lawford seemed to have just the knack of it.
You just shot over the side as though propelled by some irresistible force!" "It was nothing, nothing really. One just happens to have the knack of keeping one's head and acting quickly on the spur of the moment. Some people have it, some haven't." "And just think! As Bream was saying...." "It is all right," said Mr. Mortimer, re-appearing suddenly.
"The little lady," as he called Hester, had a knack of drawing out Abel; but to-day, as he did not see her, she slipped past him, and, crossing the church-yard, sat down for a moment in the porch to regain her breath, under the card of printed texts offered for the consideration of his flock by their young pastor. "How dreadful is this place!
You play your part well; but you always had a knack for theatricals. I know I'm a hard, unforgiving man, but there is just one phase of human nature that I will not stand for, and that is the refusal to take the medicine prescribed for the disease.
They were neither of them particularly learned or up to date, but they had a happy knack with girls, and had been especially successful in the care of delicate pupils.
The same talent which had induced him to mend his ragged clothes, made him do, with rapidity and neatness, everything else he undertook, while he showed a peculiar knack of being quick at understanding and executing the orders he received. Tom felt rather jealous that he should be surpassed by one he had at first looked down on as little better than a beggar boy.
The girls interviewed said they did not feel this as a strain, as there was a knack in doing it easily.
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