"Botch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at Leyden. No Saint in the calendar ever ran through countries with more zeal to gain inhabitants for heaven, than I have to do miracles on earth. But unfortunately it is not an age for miracles. I am at present here to botch up a piece of work, which was originally well imagined but ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX • Various
... set to," sniffed Mrs. Updyke, fitting on a huge steel thimble open at the top; "they ain't much arternoons to these short days, anyhow. I'll take this star, an' you, Sairay, may work on the next, so't I kin kinder watch ye. 'Twon't do to hev any botch-work on this quilt." ...
— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry
... little more. A handshake, with no thrill of love in it such as might have furnished her palm, at least, some memories to dwell upon; a few stilted words of leave-taking; a halting, meaningless sentence or two about his "botch" of life—then he walked away from the Wentworth doorstep. But halfway down the garden path, where the shriveled hollyhocks stood like sentinels, did a wave of something different sweep over him—a wave of the boyish, irresponsible past when his heart had wings and could ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... "Now don't botch the job," warned the elder Cassell, who was the third member of the party; "remember it means a lot of trouble for us if ...
— The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly • Margaret Burnham
... grateful. I'll do it myself, give you a nice clean job. You know these amateurs; botch it up and have a guy floppin' around, ...
— Gambler's World • John Keith Laumer |
