Lexicographical Neighbors of Botchings
Literary usage of Botchings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"Schlegel speaks well—" after surviving so many sufferings, Lear can only die in
a tragical manner Charles Lamb, alluding to Tate'e botchings, says well—" It ..."
2. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England by John Campbell Campbell, Joseph Arnould (1881)
"What blindness not to see the principle of Reform as clearly in the wretched ex
post facto botchings of Grampound and Bassetlaw as in our Bill. ..."
3. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"... tenderness and power—it gradually grew up to this state ; no attempt was made
to get this state by after-botchings —the portrait is truly charming. ..."
4. Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of that Celebrated Sculptor by John Thomas Smith (1829)
"... of the original parts, in contrast to the harsh, and often unmeaning modern
botchings, of those jobbing carvers who would do any thing for money. ..."
5. St. Mark's Rest: The History of Venice Written for the Help of the Few by John Ruskin (1908)
"(See Appendix II. for account of its recent botchings.) Your modern English
explainers of him have never heard, I observe, of any such person as an ..."
6. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1892)
"Troughton and Simms ; the wooden polar axis of which, by the same artists, and
its botchings, cobbled up by their assistants (Mr. Airy and the Rev. ..."
7. Our New Masters by Thomas Wright (1873)
"new acts of parliament intended to have a wide application, showing the botchings
and want of thoroughness that comes of party legislation — of thinking of ..."
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