bantling
Example Sentences
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There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad.
From Time Magazine Archive
Promising the sick woman to come back to her, she lifted the dark bantling again, and set off towards the slope.
From Romola by George Eliot
Who knew but that the white woman's ghost would rise out of the kopje there, some dark night, and pinch and cuff and thump and beat people who had ill-used her bantling?
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
A long time, however, must have elapsed before the bantling took heart of grace and found strength to run alone.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
It was a sickly bantling, and had to change its name the following year to the Journal des Voyages.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
