maunderer

“It was everything that England wasn't: no censorious social critics, none of that upper-class British inhibition, a concept of time that made this habitual maunderer seem punctual and, best of all, a climate that allowed one to grow plants and animals in lush profusion.”

Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico

“Otherwise this irritable maunderer would have known that, everything else apart, I am heartily tired of the responsibilities of youth under any such constant surveillance.”

Jurgen A Comedy of Justice

“They don't say, like that poor old maunderer I read this morning, that there's no use preparing -- that a million phagocytes will spring to arms overnight if their country's invaded.”

The Wrong Twin

“Mungo’s irreverence in chuckling over his own wit, and only farther alluded to it by saying — “We must give the old maunderer bos in linguam — something to stop his mouth, or he will rail at us from Dan to Beersheba. —”

The Fortunes of Nigel

“We must give the old maunderer _bos in linguam_ -- something to stop his mouth, or he will rail at us from Dan to Beersheba.”

The Fortunes of Nigel