Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reader is claimed at the very start and kept to the end. The writers do not indulge in fine writing or unusual phrases but take the sensible course of the story-teller who is interested in his plot for itself and not for the opportunity of showing his knack as a prose artist...
...some pictures by Van Dyck, which revealed to him a new world of art. He greatly improved his treatment of draperies and imparted to them a superb depth of color. While at Bath, Gainsborough also painted a great many landscapes, which are now considered his masterpieces. He had a knack of giving a momentary effect to his pictures. Horace Walpole caught the spirit of his picture, "The Mall," and said it was all of a flutter like a lady...
...that, unless a man has a fair knowledge of indoor work when he comes here, he has no chance to learn anything. The natural effect is to-kill his interest. He does not like to make himself conspicuous and ridiculous on the floor in trying to get the knack of some simple little thing without help or direction. The unvaried dose of chest weights prescribed soon grows distasteful, and the new man finally either stays away from the gymnasium altogether or appears perhaps once a week from a sense of duty or the need of a bath...
...feet well, and Mowry especially is a very deceptive dodger. Kell seldom fails to get his foot on the ball when it is passed back to be kicked, no matter how closely he is pressed. The tackling of the whole team is hard, clean and sure; they have a knack of bringing their man to the ground the moment they get hold of him. The ends and both half-backs can be relied upon to stop all efforts to send men around the ends unless the blocking is unusually good. The game which the team played with Princeton resulted...
...occasionally they allow the opposing line to make a bad hole, and when this does occur they are a little slow in settling down to effective work again. There were some pretty exhibitions of blocking in Saturday's game, but the men do not seem to have acquired the knack of habitually blocking. It is early in the season, of course, to expect this; but Yale teams have a way of blocking and tackling as though it were instinct with them to do so, and we should all like to see something of the same quality in the work...