This revolutionary spirit is expert in pulling down; it is a sorry bungler at rebuilding.

If Cartouche was a sorry bungler at prison-breaking, Sheppard was unmatched in this dangerous art.

Brodie was a sorry bungler when at work, but a perfect artist at the gallows.

At anything of this sort I was likely to prove a sorry bungler compared with such an artist as Cairns.

So they, the Lacedaemonians, visit penalties on the boy who is detected thieving as being but a sorry bungler in the art.