"Knowingness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whether or not he possessed it. At his own table he exhaled a hospitable graciousness which, from a man of known evil temper, carried the winsomeness of surprise. When he wooed, it was with an air of stately devotion, combined with that knowingness which sometimes offsets for a widower the tendency a girl has to giggle at him; and the combination had been, once or twice, too much for ...
— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington
... the Bloater, with a knowing smile, the knowingness of which consisted chiefly in the corners of the mouth being turned down instead of up. This peculiarity, be it carefully observed, was natural to the Bloater, who scorned every species of affectation. Many of his ...
— Life in the Red Brigade - London Fire Brigade • R.M. Ballantyne
... seemed to know all about dogs and their doings, suggested that he should be taught tricks "because of his knowingness." ...
— Dick Lionheart • Mary Rowles Jarvis |
