But not by every bungler and ordinary text-divider; but by a man of great cunning and experience.

We should not even have risen to the modest level of a Scotland Yard bungler.

It is true I am but a bungler in Italian, and your lordship was generally obliged to interpret for me.

[person with superficial knowledge] dilettante, sciolist^, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre. greenhorn, amateur &c (dupe) 547; novice, tyro &c (learner) 541; numskull. lubber &c (bungler) 701; fool &c 501; pedant &c 492.

[Fr.], sot; jobbernowl^, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche^. dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother; cotquean^, henhussy^. incompetent (insanity) 503. greenhorn &c (dupe) 547; dunce &c (ignoramus) 493; lubber &c (bungler) 701; madman &c 504.

[Fr.], humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion's skin &c (bungler) 701; actor &c (stage player) 599.

sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase. bungler &c 701; fool &c 501.

" "I thought him a clever fellow, but it seems that he's a bungler after all.

In that way, any bungler can reveal what is passing in the minds of his personages.

He must be a sad bungler who would spoil such a story.

Bitterly he attacked himself as a bungler and an ass.

But you are right: I am a coward and a bungler, because I can create no life.

When these had done their work, and the bungler paused amid his wasteful debris to watch his toil's result, first was heard a rustle of leaves, as if a passing whirlwind had alighted there; next came the crack of bursting sinews; then the groan of a great riving spasm, and the tree, decapitated at its foot, crashed to earth, with a vain attempt to clutch for support at the stiff, unpitying arms of its woodland brotherhood.

I twitched softly at my wrists, and then at my ankles, but whichever of the two had secured me was no bungler at his work.

People have often said of me, not to my face, but behind my back, that in most things I was but a botcher and a bungler.

" The volume contains some interesting antiquarian inquiries respecting Caesar's ford at Kingston, and Maxims for an Angler, by a Bungler.

Hard features every bungler can command; To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

How his fellow-workmen were pitying him!a poor blockhead of a bungler who had thus brought to a pitiful climax his failure to learn a simple trade.

Moussa Isa wished to shriek to him that he was a fool and a bungler; that throats were not to be cut in that fashion, with hackings and sawing at the gullet.

The crime of a bungler.

© 11Aug22, A681963. R62135, 11May50, Thomas Y. Crowell Co. (PWH) THE CRIME OF A BUNGLER, by Richard Connell.

The crime of a bungler.

© 11Aug22, A681963. R62135, 11May50, Thomas Y. Crowell Co. (PWH) THE CRIME OF A BUNGLER, by Richard Connell.

In these really domestic scenes, where the painter sought unreproved his models in simple nature, and trusted for his effect to what was holiest and most immutable in our common humanity, he must have been a bungler indeed if he did not succeed in touching some responsive chord of sympathy in the bosom of the observer.

He never forgives a bungler.