There is less to alter than I thought for-the clumsiest botcher in the world could manage it.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
When for this rule, which to my hand the State Committed unsolicited and free, Creon, my first of friends, trusted and sure, Would undermine and hurl me from my throne, Meanly suborning such a mendicant botcher of lies, this crafty wizard rogue, Blind in his art, and seeing but for gain.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
Her distress was so unfeigned that Octavius, not being a woman, comforted her by telling her he was a great botcher.
"Flamsted quarries"
Mary E. Waller