So I knew her arms were round and taper, hence all her limbs and figure finely molded, because nature does not do such things by halves, and makes no bungles in her symmetry of contour when she plans a noble specimen of humanity.
"54-40 or Fight"
Emerson Hough
Perhaps tomorrow we will give each one of them two Indians and see which can flog the longest and the hardest; but," he warned, his face growing hard and cruel, "the man who bungles his work today will have no ears tomorrow!"
"Bring Me His Ears"
Clarence E. Mulford
Every instinct of her nature comes to her help; but a man sooner or later bungles a lie if you make him angry and keep at him."
"A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties"
Charles Major