half-saddled

Updated: May 12, 2025

Men of another order labor but to provide for some practical need; and their work, humble, perhaps occasional, in its design, is found to contain the elements that make human toils indestructible." It was fortunate for all who were to come after them that those men of whom I speak were no dreamers or doctrinaires, and rode no "half-saddled hobbies" of their own construction.

Diocese Of Connecticut - Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885.