"The Botches, or whatever you call 'em, are no darrned good when you get 'em alone.
"Tom Slade with the Boys Over There"
Percy K. Fitzhugh
I cannot defend my lectures,-they are prone to be clumsy and hurried Botches,-still less answer for any report,-which I never dare read; but I can tell you the amount of my chiding.
"Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence"
Louis Agassiz
Here, too, Khalid Botches the arguments of the learned gentleman in his effort to give us a summary of them, and tells us in the end that never after, so long as that professor was there, did he ever visit Al-Hayat.
"The Book of Khalid"
Ameen Rihani