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Meanings of happy knack in English

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Usage of happy knack in English
1
You have a very happy knack of putting things simply and forcibly.
The Independence of Claire
2
She had a happy knack of setting her friends at ease.
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
3
In doing so, you have the happy knack of pleasing-others
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
4
That is the happy knack the Dutch stand-in has restored.
The Guardian
5
The public have a happy knack of forgetting these accidents.
Man and Wife
6
He had a happy knack of setting them at their ease and encouraging them.
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln / A Narrative And Descript...
7
They also have a happy knack of improving players.
The Guardian
8
Without flattering, she possessed the happy knack of setting those about her at their ease.
Charles Rex
9
Cousin Silas had a happy knack of making friends with savages, and especially with their children.
A Voyage round the World / A book for boys
10
I wish, madam, we had such a happy knack of pastry at home as you have at Castlewood.
The Virginians
11
I have the happy knack of making all who love me miserable, but my own health never fails.
A Terrible Secret: A Novel
12
Rashford is already showing encouraging signs that he's a young man with a happy knack of seizing his opportunities.
News.com.au
13
They developed a happy knack of winning -or forgetting how to lose, as Warren Gatland memorably put it.
The Guardian
14
I liked him as much for his terrible ill temper, as for his happy knack at making a blunder.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
15
Bowers was always well served, for he had the happy knack of enlisting volunteers for whatever his particular purpose called.
South with Scott
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He had the happy knack of saying happy things quietly-ofwaiting for, and returning the ball, without running after it.
Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
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