But the redoubtable Bob was, not long after, himself the victim of a cowardly mauling at the hands of two Bond Street Hebrews, who since have developed into the highest authorities on knick-knacks and articles of vertu generally.
Impervious to that scrutiny, Miss Coblenz moved a tiptoe step or two further into the room, lifting off her hat, staring and smiling through a three-shelved cabinet of knick-knacks at what she saw far beyond.
He believed that Miss Effie's lists of finery and knick-knacks held little attraction for the girl.
He filled up the future nursery with a hundred little knick-knacks of his own contriving; and with wonderful cheap bargains, which he bought in his walks about Tottenham Court Road.
I cannot help smiling when I think of some of the so-called Japanese drawing-rooms, overcrowded with knick-knacks and curios and hung with coarse gold embroideries on exported satins, of our Parisian fine ladies.
She cast a satisfied glance round the pretty room, with its pictures, and knick-knacks of china, its cozy bed, its shaded lights.
I put a lot of knick-knacks away for safe keeping in that deep drawer in the hall closet.
She took Keawe’s chest that he went with sailoring; and first she put the bottle in a corner; and then packed it with the richest of their clothes and the bravest of the knick-knacks in the house.
Of course the bulk of those opulent knick-knacks manufactured for the Carolingian and Ottonian Emperors, and now to be seen at Aachen, are as beastly as anything else that is made simply to be precious.
It is surprising to note how the removal of an accumulation of knick-knacks will free the architectural lines and restore the furniture to its rightful relation with the walls.
Nowhere is the modern litter of knick-knacks and photographs more inappropriate than in the library.
The very knick-knacks scattered carelessly about the room might have been admired in the cabinets of the Palazzo Pitti.
She sank into her usual seat near the lamp, and he leaned against the chimney, moving about with an inattentive hand the knick-knacks on the mantel.
Many knick-knacks and embroideries were also obviously foreign to the hotel.
Don Jose in his rocking-chair placed his hat on his lap, and Decoud walked up and down the whole length of the room, passing between tables loaded with knick-knacks and almost disappearing behind the high backs of leathern sofas.
The very knick- knacks scattered carelessly about the room might have been admired in the cabinets of the Palazzo Pitti.
Then came bundles, boxes, and drawers containing the knick-knacks of the pedler's pack.
Knick-knacks also were bought by the young lady, who had a keen eye to effect.
Two knacks 'pon the floor, an' I'd ha' been up in a jiffey.
From the chiffonier had gone the knick-knacks of silver and plate.
Whence came the rich, elegant dresses, the astonishingly coloured buttons, the knick-knacks of silver and gold?
Lady Mary took me into a little boudoir, which was destitute of knick-knacks and bric-a-brac.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
