What is "knacks"

Usage examples of "knacks".

Like a lot of folks, he has a knack and doesn’t even know it because that’s the way knacks work—it just feels as natural as can be to the person who’s got it, as easy as breathing, so you don’t think that could possibly be your unusual power because heck, that’s easy.

But what he hadn’t taken into account was that Making was like a whole bunch of knacks, and while some of them could grasp this or that little bit of it, there was hardly any who seemed to show a sign of grasping the whole of it.

Before I started trying to teach them, they were all content with their own knacks or even their own lack of a knack, when you come down to it.

And the Whites and Blacks who lived here now, they had only shallow powers, knacks and hexes, spells and dreams.

The captain, of course, wouldn’t care diddly about knacks, being an Englishman, which under the Protectorate had a law against knacks.

I may not believe in your American knacks, but I know when I’m in the presence of unaccountable power.

It is no more a crime to tell about American beliefs concerning knacks than it is to report on Muslim harems and Hindu widow-burning.

Some say God made the world, knacks included, and it all depends on whether the knacks are used for righteousness or not.

He reckons that the Reds, who don’t believe in knacks, have found the truth behind it all.

But if, like the Reds, he saw knacks as just an aspect of the way all things are connected together, then he wouldn’t concentrate on just one talent.

So in this fellow’s view, knacks are just the result of too much work on one thing, and not enough work on all the rest.

Calvin Miller had a brother who philosophized about knacks and said they weren’t from the Devil.

He was sailing west, and would then take whatever conveyance there was, even if it was his own feet on a rough path, to meet this fellow Alvin Smith, who said the first sensible thing about knacks that Verily had ever heard.

Yet here they were living in the middle of nowhere, Hatrack River of all places, swelling the numbers of the town but yet nobody seemed to find it remarkable at all that so many knacks was gathered here.

Miss Larner had been pretty and young, using knacks to make herself look plain and middle-aged.