"Bungler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said he. "Am I such a farcical bungler, Watson, that I should erect an obvious dummy and expect that some of the sharpest men in Europe would be deceived by it? We have been in this room two hours, and Mrs. Hudson has made some change ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle
... these tablets alone, the words have been separated from each other. The governors and officials must not be classified as educated or uneducated on the evidence of their letters; all alike employed professional scribes, of whom one might be skilful and the next a bungler whose communications must be guessed at rather than read. Occasionally a Babylonian word is followed by the corresponding Canaanite word, also in cuneiform, but marked as a translation. Like the Egyptian kings, so the Asiatic sovereigns had ...
— The Tell El Amarna Period • Carl Niebuhr
... but find the cheating bungler," thought Richard, "who slighted that little shoe in making, I'd pile fortune upon him for the balance of his life. And to think I owe my Dorothy to the ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... "and you are right. There was a time, before I knew you, when I would have defended my action, when I would have held that it was right; but I cannot now. Perhaps if I had known you longer—But what's the use. I am a sad bungler in this great work, Miss Worth. I am out of place in the big desert. I should have stayed at home. I wish—I wish you had never wakened me to the possibilities of life—real life. You would not need to ...
— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright
... into confusion, they lost the stroke, and Barney was such a bungler himself that he could not get the ...
— All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake - A Sequel to "The Boat Club" • Oliver Optic
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