Possible Clues:

• Stag, by implication, pierced by stick occasionally
• Joiner held in mild rebuke sometimes
• From time to time there's no staff — the last thing organisation needs
• Occasionally won hand with ten high
• Hand went on ground occasionally
• From time to time
• At times fashionable, with that being so
• Occasionally present with the knight
• No staff at The Nationalist occasionally
• Sometimes won hand with ten, after twisting