Word: dabbler
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...curious African vegetation. Into Peril's Rhodesian garden come two swashbuckling gentlemen of fortune. Their names, respectively, are Punch Heseltine, Major of Mounted Police, and Pam Heseltine, his cousin. Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries. The book oscillates from the fragrance of the veldt, to moments of acute excitement, particularly while the incomparable Pam is battling with disease. The story is told economically, permits itself little deviation from formula, bristles with romance and what may be termed African color...
...didn't have the courage of his conviction; Nancibel loved Wenny, but she didn't dare believe it. So the hour went by and Wenny shot himself and was luckier than the other two who went on living in Limbo-Nancibel, at the last, a pathetic dabbler in the stale waters of ineffective spiritualism; Fanshawe, the fastidious, doomed to a dull eternity of tea with professors' wives. A bitter, excellent novel of youth's frustration...
...ideas of a freshman in Weld who is dabbler in electricity have taken a practical turn, and he is now connecting his gas fixtures with a battery in order to light his gas by electricity...
...times; the Vice-Admiral is the poorest scholar in the class; the Rear-Admiral, the laziest fellow in the class; the Commodore; one addicted to boating; the Captain a jolly blade; the Lieutenant and Midshipman fellows of the same description; the Chaplain the most profane; the Surgeon a dabbler in surgery, or in medicine or anything else; the Ensign the tallest member of the class; the Boatswain one most inclined to obscenity; the Drum-Major the most aristocratic, and his assistants, fellows of the same character. Oh! laziness! fulsere quondam candiditibi soles...
...keep it lessens. Let the man of leisure remember the debt he owes to the public for its protection of himself and his property. He can pay this debt by working in public undertakings and charities where no pay can be given. But there is room nowhere for the dabbler...