Her stare, meanwhile, could wither up a mandrake root at 30 paces.Those who saw Joan Quigley as a dabbler in the devil's trade (at one time, most American churchmen), as a dangerous fantasist (most scientists) or a joke, might well fasten on oddities like these.
JOHN POLIDORI, who was born just as the 18th century drew to a close, was a doctor, gambler and literary dabbler.
CALL me a dabbler in the obscure if you like.
Estimated to be worth nearly $2bn, he is no dabbler.
Both men had problematic literary careers, but Lévi-Strauss came to be considered a profound thinker and the founder of a particular school of thought, while Caillois now passed for an inspired if unclassifiable dabbler.
He had said repeatedly that before he found Gorongosa he had lived in dread of becoming "a dabbler".
To the dabbler, it can seem that there are more genres than there are differences between them.
But I wasn't; I was an aspiring dabbler, and the only thing that happened was that my mind stopped functioning".
Rowan recalled the experience in his e-mail to Duns: Up until that time I was an indifferent writer, a dabbler really, at the best of times.
Andersen's second novel follows a mid-nineteenth-century English gentleman, Benjamin Knowles, who, after fleeing Europe for political reasons, arrives in New York and falls in with an autodidact dabbler.
