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

And finally, we would remind the rejected one that, after all, his bantling has been exhibited in the R.A.—to the president and his colleagues engaged in the work of selection.

From Mr. Punch in Bohemia by Various

The Landau, so fast disappearing from our streets and roads, was but a puny bantling of a vehicle in comparison with the older and more august conveyance. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham

Bullock had contracted for, and superintended the building of the Alabama, and was now going with me, to be present at the christening of his bantling.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

My bantling was thus born upon the high seas, in the South Atlantic Ocean, and no power could gainsay the legitimacy of its birth.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael