But I was afraid of Stone-he's a born Dabster at mathematics, you know, and I only hold my own in them by hard digging."
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Yes, I was a Dabster at it when I was in the --th.
"Burr Junior"
G. Manville Fenn
Can a more triumphant imbecile, a more abject Dabster, a more stercoraceous bourgeois be found!
"The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters"
George Sand, Gustave Flaubert Translated by A.L. McKensie